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:...

grams (1.18 ozt) of marginally less pure silver. Traditional Chinese silver sycees and other currencies of fine metals were not denominated or made by a central...

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...

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...

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...

Sycee-shaped incense used in feng shui...

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...

Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...

palladium metal Platinum coin – Form of currency Silver coin – Form of coinage Sycee – Former Chinese ingot currency "Gold coins – A Brief History". "Monetary...

denominations were used, including various weights, based on the tael system, for sycee silver and gold ingots. Chinese currency started 3000-4500 years ago but...

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...

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...

Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...

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)...

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...

Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...

Zhezhi Paper folded into the shape of a sycee, a Chinese gold ingot Chinese 摺紙...

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...

South Korean won. Originally, the Chinese had traded silver in mass called sycees, and when Spanish and Mexican silver coins arrived from the Philippines...

varied over time and place but was nominally 1000. A tael of pure silver in sycee form traded for a fluctuating price of approximately 1000 cash. A string...

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...

v t e Historical currencies of Taiwan Spanish dollar 1⁄8 = real Sycee tael 1⁄1000 = coin cash Taiwanese yen Old Taiwan dollar 1⁄100 = cent New Taiwan...

these coins were valued on par with Chinese sycees, in fact he noted that everyone in possession of a sycee would exchange these for foreign silver coins...

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...

(Huājuǎn) Mandarin roll 可乐 (Kělè) Cola 5 球球 (Qiúqiu) balls 元宝 (Yuánbǎo) Sycee 6 豆豆 (Dòudou) beans 乖乖 (Guāiguai) well behaved 7 乖乖 (Guāiguai) well behaved...

coinage Liao dynasty coinage List of Chinese cash coins by inscription Sycee (yuanbao), the gold and silver ingots also used as currency under imperial...

cash coins-based Great Qing Treasure Note and the other was the silver sycee-based Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) which were both introduced simultaneously with...

circulation. The Qing dynasty used a bimetallic currency system based on silver sycees and cast copper-alloy cash coins and during the 19th century modern machine-struck...

limited to imported foreign coins, used alongside copper cash coins and the sycee silver ingot currency. Large-scale domestic production of silver coins began...

Spade money Imperial Cash coins Strings Ban Liang Wu Zhu Kaiyuan Tongbao Sycee Flying cash Jiaozi Guanzi Huizi Jiaochao Great Ming Treasure Note Great...