Posted 01/27/2010 10:24 am
The "tael", "mace" and "candareen" are the English names for decimal units of weight adopted in Imperial times in China; the mace was equal to about 3.78 grams or 2/15ths of an aviordupois ounce; there were 10 candareens to a mace and 10 mace to a tael.
"Foo-kien" is spelled "Fukien" in the Krause catalogues and this is how the province name is still usually spelled on Taiwan, which managed to keep hold of a few offshore islands which were formerly part of mainland Fukien province before 1949. Communist China knows the province as Fujian.
Your coin is listed in Krause as KM/Y# 383. It is undated, but according to the footnote in Krause it is believed to be struck sometime around 1923. It is made of silver, though quality control in the Provincial mints under the Republic were notoriously lax; the actual silver fineness of your coin could be anywhere between .400 and .900, most probably towards the lower end.
"Foo-kien" is spelled "Fukien" in the Krause catalogues and this is how the province name is still usually spelled on Taiwan, which managed to keep hold of a few offshore islands which were formerly part of mainland Fukien province before 1949. Communist China knows the province as Fujian.
Your coin is listed in Krause as KM/Y# 383. It is undated, but according to the footnote in Krause it is believed to be struck sometime around 1923. It is made of silver, though quality control in the Provincial mints under the Republic were notoriously lax; the actual silver fineness of your coin could be anywhere between .400 and .900, most probably towards the lower end.
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, the information on the candareens and a mace is an eye opener, 1 Mace and 4.4 candareens = 20 cents. Copy coin about 1923's. Thanks!
