Szechuan Local Reserves


A type of tax silver, it was mostly likely kept as a reserve for administrative expenses by local governments. Some specimens cast by the silversmiths of the local governments only have the inscriptions of their regions without providing the names of silversmiths or other information.


No. Sc10/9

 

Weight: 382 grams/10+taels

 

Date: N/A

 

Inscriptions: 成都府/成都府

Cheng Du Prefecture

Notes:

Collection of the webmaster


No. Sc10/10

 

Weight: 352 grams/9+ taels

 

Date: N/A

 

Inscriptions: 江津縣

Jiang Jin County

Notes:

Collection of the webmaster


No. Sc10/11

 

Weight: 382 grams/10+taels

 

Date: N/A

 

Inscriptions: 富順/匠喻國良

Fu Soon (County)

Smith Yu Kuo Liang

Notes:

Collection of the webmaster


No. Sc10/12

 

Weight: 336 grams/9 taels

 

Date: N/A

 

Inscriptions: 寶珍/鹽源縣/鹽源縣

Bao Zheng (Silver bank)

Yen Yuan County

Notes:

Collection of the webmaster


No. Sc10/46

Weight: 370 grams/10 taels

 

Date: N/A

 

Inscriptions: 保甯府/四川匠章靜虛

Bao Ning Prefecture

Szechuan, Smith Zhang Jing Shu

Notes:

More information...

Collection of the webmaster


No. Sc10/58

Weight: 9 taels

 

Date: 1793 A.D.

 

Inscriptions: 足色銀/五十八年匠仁壽

Fine Silver

The 58th Year (of the Chien Lung Reign, 1793 A.D.), Smith Zen Shou

Notes:

Seen in trade


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