Jiangsi 50 Tael Boat


No. Jsb50/1

 

Weight: 50 taels

 

Date: 1875-1908 A.D.

 

Inscriptions: 九江新關/光緒年月/永昌銀爐

 

Gio Jiang New Customs*

Kuang Hsu Year Month

Yong Chang Silver Furnace

 

Chopmarks: 福/壬

 

Fu (Luck)

Zen (One of the Heavenly Stems of the Celestial Calendar)

 

Notes:

 

One of the 3 treaty ports along the Yangtze River opened at the 8th year of Hsien Feng (1858), according to the Tienjing Treaty between the Chinese and British governments. 

 

An ex collection of Su Yin Tang

 

Collection of C. F. Liu


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