2010年8月18日星期三

215) 2 INGOTS - ANCIENT VIETNAM 10 TAEL SILVER BAR & CHINA QING DYN. KUEICHOW TEA BLOSSOM



The long siver bar is Annam (Ancient Vietnam) 10 tael silver bar (weight 384 grams). I do believe it's private issue. The silver bar is genuine but chopmark looks doubtful (genuine ingot with might be fake chopmarks), further investigation needed. For official issue, usually 3 chopsmark on obverse and the crude "十兩" (Ten Lang or Ten Tael in Chinese inscription) engraved on top of reverse.


Another flowershape ingot is China Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 AD) Kueichow (Guizhou province/貴州) Tea Blossom sycee (茶花錠), 142g (ca. 4 Taels), Silver. This type of sycee was earlier Qing circulation type, circulated in Kueichow (initially I thought it's late Qing) (Maggie Li, 2005, pp.255 - 258), during Emperor Shunzhi (順治) reign to Emperor Kangxi (康熙) or later Emperor Yong Zheng (雍正) (if you have any comment please kindly send a message to my email).

Reference

Maggie, Li (李曉萍), 2005, Yuan Bao Shou Cang Yu Jian Shang 元寶收藏與鑒賞, Zhejiang University Press 浙江大學出版社.

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