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drawn up by the Council of Finance and submitted to the Throne, it appeared that a tael's weight of so-called "full touch" silver, as generally used throughout China, actually contained when melted only .98 or .99 of a tael of pure silver: and they proposed therefore that a tael and 5 mace pieces should be .96 fine and 1 and 2 mace pieces .85 fine.
The recent memorandum of the Board of Finance observes further that Chinese sycee has never actually been 100 per cent fine. Recent analyses have shown that the best does not reach .985 touch. Supposing therefore that coins of 100 per cent pure silver were struck, the use of broken silver could not well be suddenly abandoned as soon as the new coinage appeared, and this, together with the use of Mexican dollars and Chinese Provincial dollars - which are all .6 odd in fineness while passing for .7 odd of pure silver - would lead to the illicit melting down of the heavier coin, as invariably happens under such circumstances.
In the memoranda of Chang Chih-tung, Lu Ch'uan-lin and Yuan Shih-k'ai it was observed that in the absence of a gold
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„VOTUTINO VIsihladiva as (2009tq (noeTabrisa
anioo 9694T
ċ bms deso Of erid to sociq ode syat STudut eds at IIIW
to wait odd Jusvenq Illw breJasq edd to 5009ių Jnes
,siqooq and to etli vilah sdd mi usijiuoitlib To BBɔitq
blog a Tot enoÍJETAɖetq Tuc to disq gnimot asblasd
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ption edd yd bontoo Telloh Lanoiden edd abтøger 3A
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Oidagi aðvni gaidose"-331 Tevis baxit ad vino neo
nolauin you are becsot evs aðalleitomem Jasasıq ent
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eno 'doext att bre Ised sne to gen bedat Idejas-grof
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drawn up by the Council of Finance and submitted to the
Throne, it appeared that a tael's weight of so-called
*full touch" silver, as generally used throughout China,
actually contained when melted only .98 or .99 of a tael
of pure silver: and they proposed therefore that a
tael and 5 mace pieces should be .96 fine and 1 and 2
mace pieces .85 fine.
The recent memorandum of the Board of Finance ob-
serves further that Chinese sycee has never actually
been 100 per cent fine.
Recent analyses have shown
that the best does not reach .985 touch.
Supposing
therefore that coins of 100 per cent pure silver were
struck, the use of broken silver could not well be
suddenly abandoned as soon as the new coinage appeared,
and this, together with the use of Mexican dollars and
Chinese Provincial dollars
which are all .6 odd in
fineness while passing for .7 odd of pure silver
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would lead to the illicit melting down of the heavier
coin, as invariably happens under such circumstances.
In the memoranda of Chang Chih-tung, Lu Ch'uan-lin and
Yuan Shih-k'ai it was observed that in the absence of a
gold
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