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    A sycee (/ˈsaɪsiː, saɪˈsiː/; from Cantonese 細絲, Jyutping: Sai3 Si1, lit. 'fine silk') or yuanbao (traditional Chinese: 元寶; simplified Chinese: 元宝; pinyin:...
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    unit of weight and, by extension, a currency. Traditional Chinese silver sycees and other currencies of fine metals were not denominated or made by a central...
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    skin, a typical shape of copper ingots from these times. Molds for Chinese sycee, a form of silver and gold ingots used as currency under the empire. Lead...
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    Sycee-shaped incense used in feng shui...
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    the northern provinces. Their resemblance to the gold and silver ingots (sycee) used in Imperial China has meant that they symbolize wealth and good fortune...
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    Palladium coin Platinum coin – Form of currency Silver coin – Form of coinage Sycee – Former Chinese ingot currency "Gold coins – A Brief History". "Monetary...
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  • Township (元宝乡), Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Yuanbao Temple, in Taichung Sycee, also known as Yuanbao, a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in...
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    City (銀城 POJ: Gûn-siâⁿ pinyin: Yínchéng) because the old city resembled a sycee in plan view. Tong’an District administers two subdistricts: Datong and...
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    • Per capita 19.8 taels Currency Paper money (1368–1450) Bimetallic: Copper cashes (in strings of coin and paper) Silver taels (in sycees and by weight)...
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    Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...
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  • Yambu may refer to: Yanbu Sycee, Chinese silver ingots, also known as yambu Yambú, a form of Cuban rumba This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • coins, although silver and gold bars were also manufactured, e.g. Chinese sycee, Japanese obans and kobans, and Vietnamese lang and tien. Cast potins circulated...
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    South Korean won. Originally, the Chinese had traded silver in mass called sycees, and when Spanish and Mexican silver coins arrived from the Philippines...
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  • money – Zhou dynasty Ant nose coin – Chu (state) Ying Yuan – Chu (state) Sycee – Qin dynasty Ban Liang – Qin dynasty Spade money – Zhou dynasty, Xin dynasty...
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    determined to be genuine. Spanish silver also circulated as ingots (known as sycee or yuanbao) which weighed a nominal liang (about 36 grams) although purity...
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    Zhezhi Paper folded into the shape of a sycee, a Chinese gold ingot Chinese 摺紙...
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  • dime). It replaced copper cash and various silver ingots called sycees. The sycees were denominated in tael. The yuan was valued at 0.72 tael, (or 7...
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    midnight. Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape resembles a Chinese sycee. In the South, it is customary to make a glutinous new year cake (niangao)...
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    next day on 27 August. The Chinese had spirited out the entire treasury of sycee bullion under the nose of the British by disguising it inside hollow logs...
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    run out of food, sent a delegation to the rebels, bearing a gift of 40 sycees of silver and four boxes of green tea, and offered to surrender, provided...
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  • 1662–1683 1683–1895 1895–1946 1946–1949 1949–present Main unit Spanish dollar Sycee tael (兩) Taiwanese yen (圓) Old Taiwan dollar (圓) New Taiwan dollar (圓) Subunit...
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    Country of Vietnam A Việt Nam Nguyên Bảo (越南元寶), gold sycee of 10 taels produced during the Minh Mạng period. Vietnamese alphabet Nước Việt Nam Hán-Nôm...
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    ng4gung1) Caishen (the god of wealth in Chinese folk religion and Taoism) & Sycee (an ancient, custom-made gold or silver ingot) Jiang Ziya (an 11th-century...
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  • Originally, the logo was bullet and now the logo of the software is a Sycee with "smiling faces". It allows to send voice and text messages, voice and...
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  • Tael, a Chinese unit of weight and currency using silver ingots called "Sycee" This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title...
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    denominations were used, including various weights, based on the tael system, for sycee silver and gold ingots. Until the 19th century, coins denominated in wen...
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    Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...
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  • period was to melt gold into copper molds for convenience, derived from the sycee manufacturing method. These were called Bundōkin (分銅金), of which there were...
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    Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...
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  • Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...
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