Dated Saddle
No.
I-C/1
Weight: 188 grams/5+ taels
Date: 1913 A.D.
Inscriptions: 福盛源號/匯號紋銀
Fu Shen Yuan Firm
Remittance Bank's Fine Silver
Assaying chops: 公估周陳看/公估周陳看
Public Assayer Jou Chen Looked
Date chop: 癸
Guei (Year Guei Chou, 1913)
Notes:
Collection of the webmaster
No.
I-D/1
Weight: 190 grams/5+ taels
Date: 1910 A.D.
Inscriptions: 庚戌伍月/裕源匯紋
Yu Yuan (Firm) Remittance Silver
Year Gan Hsu, the 5th Month
Assaying chops: 官公估童佘看
Official Public Assayer Tong Ser Looked
Notes:
Collection of the webmaster
No.
I-D/2
Weight: 204 grams/5+ taels
Date: 1911 A.D.
Inscriptions: 辛亥伍月/萬泰匯紋
Wan Tai (Firm) Remittance Silver
Year Hsin Hai, the 5th Month
Assaying chops: 官公估童佘看
Official Public Assayer Tong Ser Looked
Notes:
Collection of the webmaster
No.
O-D/1
Weight: 5 taels
Date: 1912-1914 A.D.
Inscriptions: 民國年造/匯號紋銀
Made in The Years of The Republic of China
Remittance Bank's Fine Silver
Assaying chops: 官公估佘看/官公估佘看
Official Public Assayer Ser Looked
Chopmarks: 福興
Fu Hsin (The name of the assayer)
Notes:
This is a specimen cast and assayed in the region Outside Kunmin by the Ser Fu Hsin Firm during the Republic era before Saddle Sycee was totally withdrawn from Yunnan in 1914. On this specimen, Ser Fu Hsin Firm was also acting as the Official Public Assayer.
Collection of Cong An Nguyen
No.
I-C/2
Weight: 190 grams/5+ taels
Date: 1913 A.D.
Inscriptions: 福盛源記/匯號紋銀
Fu Shen Yuan Firm
Remittance Bank's Fine Silver
Assaying chops: 公估周陳看/大漢民國二年
Public Assayer Jou Chen Looked
The 2nd Year of the Republic of the Han Tribe (The Republic of China)
Chopmarks: 庫
Ku (Treasury)
Notes:
This is a specimen cast and assayed in Kunmin city by the Fu Shen Yuan Firm in the 2nd year of the Republic of China- one year before Saddle Sycee was totally withdrawn from Yunnan in 1914. Its assaying stamps show that 周 Jou (寶銓 Bao Chuan) and Chen 陳 (元昌 Yuan Chang) whose terms as official public assayers were ended by the former government in the 2nd year of Hsuan Tung (1910) resumed acting two years later as public assayers in the new regime.
The chopmark of 庫 "Ku" (Treasury) indicates that after the Republican government was established, saddle sycee was accepted as a kind of tax payment for a very short period of time.
Collection of the webmaster
No.
O-D/2
Weight: 5 taels
Date: 1912-1914 A.D.
Inscriptions: 民國年造/匯號紋銀
Made in the Years of The Republic of China
Remittance Bank's Fine Silver
Assaying chops: 官公估佘看/官公估佘看
Official Public Assayer Ser Looked
Chopmarks: 福興
Fu Hsin (The name of the assayer)
Notes:
Collection of Hu Chun Chung
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