1) Chinese silver piece 2) Coin of China 3) Currency of China 4) Old Chinese money 5) Silver coin 6) Silver ingots
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A sycee was a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in China until the 20th century. The name derives from the Cantonese words meaning `fine silk` (Presumably, {zh|c=細絲|p=xìsī|cy=saisì}). In North China, the word yuanbao ({zh|t=元寶|s=元宝|p=yuánbǎo}), was used for similar ingots. This word is attested in the 19th-century Engli.....
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• (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
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(from the article `tael`) ...volume in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bar silver imported into China by the Spaniards and others was remelted and cast into specially shaped ...
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Sy·cee' noun [ Said to be from a Chinese word,
se-tze or
se-sze , meaning, fine silk, and to be so called because if pure it may be drawn out into fine threads.] Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [ China...
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Sycee (sycee silver) were silver ingots used during the 18th century as a medium of exchange in China.
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fine uncoined silver in lumps of various sizes usually bearing a banker's or assayer's stamp or mark, formerly used in China as a medium of exchange. Also called
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