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- Name:
- Michael zhang
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- P.R.CHINA.
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- michael_zhang510@163.com
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- 八爪鱼
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I am very appreciate your gold .Thank your information about Yunnan gold leaf.
Best regards!
Name:
J.H.J.M. Holtzer
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The Netherlands
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teel_iarp@yahoo.com
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Thank you for your info about this very subject. It's very interesting and worth-wile to have your web-site!
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Scott Semans
Country:
USA
Email:
Scott@coincoin.com
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http://WWW.COINCOIN.COM/bkXC.htm
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Quite a nice site! I have linked to it where I offer sycee books for sale, since your review comments are most useful.
Name:
David Teel
Country:
USA
Email:
teel_iarp@yahoo.com
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Great collection of facts and information. I have come across a Chinese sycee 5 tael. It is a Shan Si-waist from the Jin Tai silver bank. It has two small characters that indicate it is the "thousand day" or "thousand sky". Have you ever come across one of this type?
Name:
Mike
Country:
Malaysia
Email:
ratsics@hotmail,.com
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Hi. I came across your website after finding a coin, just 5 mins ago! in good condition with Carlolus IIII on it. 1804. No chopmarks. Do you know of the significance of this coin and what its made of?
Cheers for the website. Mike.
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Alex Diner
Country:
USA
Email:
aax1@bellsouth.net
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Thanks....your web-site is the first in my search for information. This morning I bought five pounds of large old silver Chinese coins ...many different types ..... have identified one in your site. Thanks!!! Alex Diner
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Margaret O'Rourke
Country:
Australia
Email:
naga@jc.com.au
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Dear Mr Tai
We came across your website while surfing the Net for information for an article we are writing on Chinese chopmarked foreign silver coins. We would like to make reference to some of the information in ‘Chopmarked Coins of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Coins’ – who do we acknowledge? Also – would you be able to give us some information on a 50-tael sycee we have? (If you can let us have an email address, we will send you a photo.)
Thank you,
Margaret & Patrick O’Rourke Australia
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Robert Scott Patrick
Country:
USA
Email:
paintpeddler@earthlink.net
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Stephen; Thanks for your webb site info. I recently realized that a small unknown item left to me from my aunt was a sycee boat. I believe it to be a double good luck, now that I have studied your pages. The inscription is in a large decorated square dead center. I don't have a scale so the grams are unknown at this time. I will try to send you a photo at a later date, as I did not see this particular one while looking over your site.
Double Good Luck Scott
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Generic
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I appriciate your project. It`s cool
Name:
THCHEONG
Country:
SINGAPORE
Email:
tackhoong.cheong
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Appreciate your very comprehensive coverage on the sycee. Great work.
Name:
THCHEONG
Country:
SINGAPORE
Email:
tackhoong.cheong
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???
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China mainland
Email:
joyces@vip.sina.com
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I learned many knowleges about sycee from you and your website,thank you very much.
Name:
Christopher Johnson
Country:
United States
Email:
websterglobe@juno.com
URL:
http://mcj.bloghorn.com/
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I've just started in this hobby and need all the help I can get. Thanks for a great research resource.
Name:
lyn
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u.s.a
Email:
daddyo3334@aol.com
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I am in a possession of a vietnamese silver bar and I found your web site very educational.
Name:
Jim DeLoach
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USA
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deloacjc@alltel.net
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Wonderful site, lot's of information
Name:
Kasin
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USA
Email:
kasin@kasinhunter.com
URL:
kasinhunter.com
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Fascinating page. Pictures are outstanding. An educational experience. Thank you so much for sharing.
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che lu Tseng
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u.s.a
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tsengw1939@yahoo.com
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nice jobs !!
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家麟
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中國
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新年之際看到戴老師推薦的 劉建芳先生銀錠收藏，真是一大?藏，驚嘆不已，有幸觀賞這麼多珍品，眼前一亮，尤其是首刊五十兩藏品的珍稀與富饒歷史價值， 襄陽縣/康熙四十一年 海防捐局/光緒十二年/二月/公濟益 江漢關/光緒八年/有成號匠羅芝...... 可見劉先生大家風範，十分感謝！十分感謝戴老師的中文版！
Name:
M F Pereira da Silva
Country:
Macau
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asteroblix@yahoo.com
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The information contained in your web site is very important for coin collectors, especially amateurs like myself. I find the photos and the explanations very interesting and useful. Keep up the good work! Is it possible to contact you by e-mail to ask your opinion about this kind of subject? Anyway, I feel lucky to have stumbled accross your webs site.
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Craig Stone
Country:
Canada
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rcstone37@hotmail.com
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Fascinating website. Now I have finally identified some of my chinese trade dollars thanks to you. Happy New Year.
Name:
Ernest
Country:
USA
Email:
eticoin@yahoo.com
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Hello Very intrestin information. Mr. Strphen I was looking fot You for last 6 weeks. I did send You many e-mails. I need Your help to tell me more about same of the coins I have. Please answer me Ernest eticoin@yahoo.com
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bernard olij
Country:
indonesia
Email:
sybrandt@telkom.net.id
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Thanks for the information,bernard olij (Dutch0Malang, indonesi
Name:
Liz Greene
Country:
USA
Email:
egreenelaw@aol.com
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Mr. Tai--I am looking for chinese silver bracelets, or the bracelets made of black ivy with silver ornaments. I came across some pictures of such items on a page you placed on the Internet dated April 25, 1998 called Silver Bracelets of Ancient China. I have a black ivy bracelet with silver dragons holding a ball. I would so love to find a place to buy more black ivy bracelets, or chinese silver bracelets (old ones). The bracelet I have was brought to me by a friend who traveled to China about 30 years ago. Are these bracelets sold anywhere anymore? Or are they now museum items only? Any information you can provide will be so much appreciated. I thank you in advance.
Name:
WC Chin
Country:
Singapore
Email:
chinwc@singnet.com.sg
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Good info for a collector of coins. Will be good to show the value of coins in your website. Rgds
Name:
henry macgowan
Country:
scotland
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henrymcg@aol.com
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what an education. i've bookmarked your site. knew nothing of this subject but you've made it facinating. thanks.
Name:
Matthias
Country:
Schmitt
Email:
schmitt@hwph.de
URL:
www.hwph.de
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Hi, nice page. Very interesting information about bonds & shares. If you are interested in more chinese bonds & shares, look at www.hwph.de. Best regards Matthias
Name:
Collect Plaza
Country:
Netherlands
Email:
promotion@collectplaza.com
URL:
http://www.collectplaza.com
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Nice site, my compliments ! Please have a look at www.collectplaza.com You can post a link to your own website by yourself.
Name:
Otto Lam
Country:
Hong Kong
Email:
lahk@pacific.net.hk
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Dear Stephen, It's my first time reading your website. It's the best and informative website on sycee silver. I admire your knowledge in this area. I am a research student in Hong Kong studying early banking history of China. I tried to get some input from the Kwangtung sycee on your website but find out some errors. On item Kt10/4 : Yi Ho 10 Taels the 4th year of Tao Kuang. The subscription mentioned that the sycee should belongs to "Jardine Matheson". Please note that this information is incorrect as Jardine only use Yee Ho as their Chinese name after the first Opium War. In fact, the name Yee Ho should be a name for one of the Hong merchant in China during that period. This merchant traded extensively with Jardine. Therefore, it was believed that Jardine picked up this name when the Hong merchant was no longer in the business after Opium War. Can you contact the owner of the sycee to find out more input and we can exchange some information. All the best, Otto Lam
Name:
Kenny Hsu
Country:
U.S.
Email:
kennymchsu@wmconnect.com
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Dear Stephen, Appreciate for your effort to provide sycee information, it was part of our history and fun to keep it to our next generation. Kenny Hsu Roswell, GA.
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Sandra L. DeMars
Country:
Lompoc, CA. USA
Email:
sandielee6@aol.com
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I have a Spanish coin (Silver, 1776). On the obverse side it says CAROLUS. 111. DEI. GRATIA 1776. On the reverse :HISPAN. ET. IND. REX.M 8R. M. The M after Rex looks like it has a small o on top of it. It also has the portriat of Carolus 111 on the front. Could it be worth anything? Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Sandra L. DeMars. Lompoc, California.
Name:
Thomas Niess
Country:
Germany
Email:
tniess@t-online.de
URL:
www.rattanakosin.de
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Dear Stephen, You are providing a superb resource. Best regards from Germany. Thomas Niess www.rattanakosin.de www.eucoprimo.com
Name:
Earl hendershot
Country:
USA
Email:
earloflake@webtv.net
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My friend: Thank you for your helpful website. I appreciate it very much.
Name:
Judy
Country:
USA
Email:
JudyinanRV@aol.com
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Great site to learn. Thanks
Name:
Edward Schuldt
Country:
USA
Email:
URL:
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Dear Stephen, Thanks for your wonderful site and your very helpful correspondence. You are providing a superb resource. Warm regards, Edward
Name:
家麟
Country:
中國
Email:
guixun@163.net
URL:
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戴老師：您的網藏品豐富，展現不少銀錠珍品是公認最好的銀錠網。大作<<晚清傳奇貨幣:雲南牌坊錠考>>專著雲南銀錠，更是歸納清晰， 相當的實用，我邊學邊用，受益匪淺。 謝謝！
Name:
Serge Bertholom?
Country:
Belgium
Email:
serge.bertholome@skynet.be
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Very excellent site. A real treasure for beginners. Bravo!
Name:
Ken Berger
Country:
USA
Email:
dr.berger@juno.com
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Hung Hao! Great website. Very informative. I lived in Taiwan for 5 years. I was a teacher at Tunghai University in Taichung.
Name:
戴建兵
Country:
中?
Email:
jianbd@263.net
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戴兄：您好！我是戴建兵，看到您的网站十分高?。?了不少?西。
Name:
Larry Gaye
Country:
USA
Email:
light.man@verizon.net
URL:
www.vcoins.com/byzantinecoinstore
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Thanks for you site, it was passed onto me courtesy of one of the Chopmark club at the Baltimore ANA convention. Helps me a lot as I am involved in dong an appraisal of a collection that has many chopmarked coins. Good site.
Name:
Scott Semans
Country:
USA
Email:
SSemans@aol.com
URL:
http//:www.coincoin.com
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Stephen: Quite an excellent site! I am slowly compiling a links page and will definitely include you for China: Sycee, China: Chopmarks, and Literature: Sycee.
Name:
cccp
Country:
china
Email:
ac9666@163.com
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兄好,小弟准???展?,
想收一枚?西?,兄能提供?助??
Name:
R. Dee Putnam
Country:
USA
Email:
dputnam@allwest.net
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Very interesting.
Name:
Gijs Vlothuizen
Country:
Netherlands
Email:
vlothuizen@home.nl
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Hi Stephen, it's good to have you on internet !!! Sycee's are a wonderfull subject and I am very glad a serious, friendly and experienced person like you shares his knowledge with other people. Best wishes from the Netherlands, Gijs
Name:
Xeng
Country:
USA
Email:
riotgrlx@yahoo.com
URL:
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Hi... I think your website is very informative and helpful. My father has a sycee handed down from his grandfather as a good luck charm. My father was born in Laos but our ancestors lived in Sourthern China. My siblings and I never knew what it was, if it was actually a good luck charm or used as money until we did some reseach on-line. After looking at pictures I believe ours may be from the Ching dynasty. But I'm not sure, there are a lot of inscriptions. Is there anyone who could help us read the inscriptions? We have no intention of selling it. But to know some of the history behind our sycee would be helpful.
Name:
Jeffrey C. Miller
Country:
USA
Email:
dkkd@aol.com
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Wonderful, scholarly and illuminating. Great resource for students of this important area of numismatic history. A window into the living metal of world trade.
Name:
Xinyi
Country:
Singapore
Email:
ong_xinyi@hotmail.com
URL:
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very interesting site.
Name:
Chien-Pang Kung
Country:
Taiwan/USA
Email:
c_p_kung@yahoo.com
URL:
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The best sycee web site in the world! Very informative and educational! Every sycee-lover should take a look and he definitely will benefit enormously. I believe those who have visited this site would absolutely agree with me. Many thanks, Stephen!
Name:
Bill Steinborn
Country:
USA
Email:
bill@steinborn.org
URL:
www.dustyjacket.com
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This is a wonderful source of information and history, for this American who is uneducated about China and its history in numismatics. It will take me many days to go through each page of this site, but it has already helped me. Thank you for all this hard work.
Name:
HCT
Country:
TAIWAN
Email:
070651@imail.landbank.com.tw
URL:
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戴先生您好: 請問您的大作"滇銀圖鑑"目前在那裡還買得到?一本多少錢?
Name:
oscar soliz
Country:
united states
Email:
sbearbear50@aol.com
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very helpful info, I am glad their are still a few helpful people in the world. many thanks for the info and keep the good work . thanks oscar. danny cheng refered you to me. Just what I was looking for. If you have more info on chops symbols please let me know. thanks again.
Name:
Sui Bai
Country:
Hong Kong
Email:
polymuseum
URL:
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Honest and important collector.
Name:
Patrick Bissonnette
Country:
Canada
Email:
patrickbissonnette@hotmail.com
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i am a french canadian,excuse me for my bad english language please. I live in montreal, canada. I am an excavator, and when a excavate, i find a money peace. The peace is a ( i think) a spanish colonial pillar dollars. It's a 8 reals carolus III 1786. you have a picture of a 1782 and 1787. It is possible ??? Please i want answer. Thank you.
Name:
Jason
Country:
Canada
Email:
jasoncoolnet@hotmail.com
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Very good web site. Thank you!
Name:
Liu Chao Yuan
Country:
Taiwan
Email:
vanliu@ms16.hinet.net
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It's great to find your web page, it is the best web baout Chinese sycee. I hope to begin my collecting life about Chinese sycee,but it's very difficult to get the information. The most of Chinese sycee's books are out of print. Can you tell me how to buy the books? Thanks again!!
Name:
Peter Shair
Country:
USA
Email:
yukishair@yahoo.com
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Happy to found your web page, it is very interesting, a lot of new knowledge learn from you. I hope you can put more and more things into it, so that I have more knowledge to learn. I personally collecting US, Hong Kong and Chinese banknotes, I did collected over a thousand sheet already. I hope I can make a web page like yours. Thank you! Peter Shair.
Name:
John Chu
Country:
U.S.A.
Email:
reg96@iccas.com
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Thank you for your informative site about sycee/silver taels. Now I know all of them on eBay for sale are fakes/copies!!! A very expensive lesson.
Name:
Laurie Sheeran
Country:
Australia
Email:
sheeatlas@bigpond.com
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Dear stephen, I have been looking at your 'sycee on line' web site and I found the site very helpful especially to do with saddle sycee. I have a saddle sycee and I am thinking of putting it on the internet or in one of the large auctions. I wondered if you could tell me how much I would expect to get for my sycee; or perhaps you maybe interested in purchasing it before I offer it to anyone else. I have photo's of the Sycee that I could send on request. Kind Regards Laurie Sheeran. Email: sheeatlas@bigpond.com
Name:
Richard Adams
Country:
USA
Email:
ackthpt@concentric.net
URL:
www.dragonswest.com
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Wonderful informative site! Thank you very much for your effort and placing this resource on the web. Richard Adams Collector of Chopmarked Coins California, USA
Name:
Kathy Phou
Country:
Canada
Email:
cphou@uwo.ca
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We have found a chinese silver ingot. We want to know more information about, and we think you can help us. If you have the time, you can call of fax us at (519) 659-4736. All we know about it, is that it is approximately over 1000 years old. If you want to view a picture of it...visit our website at www.chineseingot.8m.com (sorry the webpage is not completely done, the picture is still there. We hope to hear from you soon... kATHY PHOU
Name:
lixiaoping
Country:
china
Email:
lixiaoping@hzcnc.com
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Mr Dai: how are you ,I'm lixiaoping, an associate professor of zhejiang provincial museum china.I study the syecc of nan song dynasty for many years.I very like your syecc on line, It give me a lot of information of sycee, I hope receive your answer.
Name:
Bruce W. Smith
Country:
USA
Email:
smithbr@bytehead.com
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Hello, What a great site! You may also want to know that there is a website just on chopmarked coins. It is hosted in Spain and they are compiling a catalog of photos of chopped coins. They have several hundred photos already. They have also produced a CD-ROM of the photos. I don't have the address with me right now, but anyone interested may send an email to me and ask for the address. In 1982 I started a magazine called East Asia Journal (EAJ) covering coins and paper money of the far east. Unfortunately only 7 issues were produced. In 1994 I started another magazine called Journal of East Asian Numismatics (JEAN) which is published in Taiwan. I was the editor for the first few years, but am no longer connected with the magazine. So far, I think 18 issues have been produced. I have been researching and writing on Chinese numismatics for 30 years. About 100 of my articles have been published in various periodicals. In the early 1970's I was able to get a set of photographs of the sycee in Eduard Kann's collection -- about 200 different pieces. That collection is now at the British Museum. Kann is well known to collectors of Chinese coins for his catalog of Chinese gold and silver coins, published in 1954, which is still the standard work. He also published in the 1950's a series of nearly 50 articles on Chinese paper money. Most collectors are not aware of this work. I am currently working on an encyclopedia of Chinese monetary history. There are about 5,000 entries so far covering all aspects of money in China (including related subjects such as medals, amulets, ration coupons, burial money, etc.). My other special interest is the ancient money of China -- knife and spade coins. I welcome emails from anyone interested in Chinese money. Good Luck.
Name:
feng yi S
Country:
Australia
Email:
songfy@hotmail.com
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this is absolutely a great website about sycee. but i think most collecots or people who interested in sycee are Chinese, so why not make this web site alternatively available for both English and Chinese readers? - a same website with both english and chinese visions. I think once it is done much more people will be able to view this site from worldwide place.
Name:
Michio SHIMIZU
Country:
Japan
Email:
MYellowtiger@aol.com
URL:
http://www.asianteahouse.net
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I like to communicate with you. I am working very hard in order to make a video of Chinese and Japanese Coins. I heard in China someone made a CD Rom with 6000 color pictures of old Chinese cons. I have seen a book on Chinese pants money written by an author who wear a pig tail hair, He collected incredible number of pants money and managed to read or de-cipher the writing. Today, there are many easy going publication. Even the museum curators read only the obverse. They don;t want to be involved with the complication of reading the reverse. I like to stand up and fight single handedly that kind of coin study is for beginers. We need more sophisticated and realy deep China coin research. Michio SHIMIZU 1402 Cambridge Street, Hopkins MN 55343 USA
Name:
fengyi S
Country:
Australia
Email:
songfy@hotmail.com
URL:
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hi, is there any items here that you want to sell? i'm interested in your web site, i want to get more informations about it.
Name:
James Chen
Country:
Taiwan
Email:
james77@ms28.hinet.net
URL:
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Hi, U got a good work in sycee , it worth to take a look . I am interesting in sycee N collecting many years ago. James Chen
Name:
lamar donaldson
Country:
usa
Email:
nappa_x3@hotmail.com
URL:
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hello stephen, i had no idea what the name sycee ment up untill now, i thought i had a unique name for my clothing company(sycee wear), apparently the world is alot smaller than i thought, i was amazed to learn that the name comes from chinese silver. i really want to thank you for helping to make the light within me shine brighter through knowledge.
Name:
Arthasith
Country:
Thailand
Email:
athasith@loxley.co.th
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Nice collection of sycees, very informative but can be even better if the pictures get larger for better viewing. May send you picture of my sycees for reviewing if you can provide me with your email address.
Name:
Jim Farr
Country:
USA
Email:
jimfarr@nettally.com
URL:
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Stephen, You did a great job on this. I especially like being able to find Sycee from different regions. I will definitely bookmark your site and check it often to see what new things you have added. Keep up the great work!
Name:
Joaquín Morales
Country:
Chile
Email:
lahobbyteca@entelchile.net
URL:
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Hello, As I was in Burma I learned that there exist such "coins" as sycees. From That time (7 years ago) I collect or try to collect sycees. I have been three times more in China and SEA. I have now about 90 "coins by weight" from them may be 35 from China. It is really fascinating, how the people there developed this currency form. As I said in one of my articles (about these coins) "Chinese discovered the paper, then invented the banknote, after that, they invented inflation, so they went back to silber...." and stay for long! Very informative, spetially for us, who do not speak chinese. It is a luck to have such sites as yours and (the few) other like this. Keep in touch! Joaquín Morales
Name:
Gerald Yang
Country:
China
Email:
gezza@sina.com
URL:
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Dear Mr Tai, As a Chinese, I prefer to call someone as erudite as you Mr, in its original Chinese sense. Please accept my warmest congratulations and deepest appreciation for your hard work, expert information and great generosity in imparting your expertise and experience with sycee lovers of all levels and backgrounds. Yours deserves Sycee Site of the Year (or the Millenium) Award (if there were one!!!).
Name:
Michel Gagnon
Country:
Canadian living in China
Email:
mbaa013@attglobal.net
URL:
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Hi very good information, I'm working in China and I found some sycee at the market and with the information you have I did found interesting information on my piece. Best regard
Name:
Howard A. Daniel III
Country:
United States
Email:
Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com
URL:
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You have developed a very interesting and useful website and I will be recommending it to other collectors and researchers. When I write my next Southeast Asia column in World Coin News about bullion pieces, I will also mention it there. Do you have anything in your collection that can be related to Southeast Asia in any way?
Name:
Yachien Parker
Country:
USA
Email:
yfparker@aol.com
URL:
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Congratulations !! Yachien
Name:
Cong Nguyen
Country:
USA
Email:
canguyen32@aol.com
URL:
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The very best pioneer web site on sycee. Excellent reference for collectors and researchers. Thanks.
Name:
Tony Ma
Country:
USA
Email:
tma@bcm.tmc.edu
URL:
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Hello, some discussion on forgery would be nice.
Name:
Eric Schena
Country:
United States
Email:
eschena@hotmail.com
URL:
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Hi Stephen: What a great resource. There is such a distinct lack of information on sycee here in the US and websites like yours will help long time sycee collectors as well as novices (like myself) fully appreciate these wonderful artifacts. Good luck with your site and best wishes
Name:
Danny Cheng
Country:
Hong Kong
Email:
dannyc@hk.super.net
URL:
http://www.sycee.net
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Stephen, Congratulations for the launching of Sycee-on-line! Great news for all sycee collectors and fans on the internet community. An expertise sycee website hosted by an sycee expertise - this is exactly what I have been awaiting for a long time!
Name:
Lisa and Dan Malloy
Country:
Bermuda
Email:
lamlloy@northrock.bm
URL:
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Stephen--You have been a tremendous source of information and inspiration to us as we have expanded our collection of sycee. The indivdual nature of each sycee is one of the attractions to us of searching for new pieces, but we found this handcrafted quality means that there seems to be no end to fakes and counterfeits; your site is a great teaching aid since it let's visitors see first hand examples of genuine sycee. For those of us who do not speak or write Chinese, your background information and descriptions of various pieces give a context in which to better appreciate sycee as more than just pieces of silver--you put us in touch with the past. Thanks for all your efforts, and keep up the great work! Best regards, Lisa and Dan
Name:
Vladimir Belyaev
Country:
Russia
Email:
charm@postman.ru
URL:
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Dear Stephen! Please accept my warmest congratulations with your Web-site! You have a very good start. I hope that your site will help to all collectors to open magic world of Chinese Sycee's and to researchers to find many-many useful information on this subject. With best regards, Vladimir Belyaev