Yunnan Double Groove
No.
Ydg/1
Weight: 158 grams/4.2 taels
Date: 1807 A.D.
Inscriptions: 嘉慶十二年/裕順劉炳
Jia Ching 12th Year
Yu Soon (Firm), Liu Bin (The smith)
Counterstamps: 二月
The 2nd Month
Notes:
Many counterfeits seen in the trade.
Collection of the webmaster
No.
Ydg/2
Weight: 152 grams/4+ taels
Date: N/A
Inscriptions: 世有課銀/世有課銀
Shi You (Firm) Tax Silver
Notes:
According to the memoir of Chang Yong Shen, a former employee of a Yunnan silver bank during the early Republican era, published in 1962, Ydg/2 and its kind in the shape of a flat square were mainly cast for the payment of salt tax, even though they were not so inscribed.
Collection of the webmaster
No.
Ydg/3
Weight: 240 grams/6.7 taels
Date: N/A
Inscriptions: 東泰字號/東泰字號
Shi You (Firm) Tax Silver
Counterstamps: 課銀
Tax Silver
Notes:
Many Double Groove sycee carried a small additional stamp, such as "tax
silver", "certain month" and some others, as Ydg/1,3 exemplified.
Among them, "tax silver" was more common. "Tax silver" was
not necessarily cast for or generated from tax payments; in many cases it
implied the purity of the silver was up to the standard of tax silver. As a
result, Chinese people in the earlier time also called Yunnan sycee as "Jie
Ding"
(Submittal Silver).
Collection of the webmaster
No.
Ydg/4
Weight: 3.5 taels
Date: N/A
Inscriptions: 通寶字號/通寶字號
Tong Bao Firm
Notes:
Collection of Hu Chun Chung
No.
Ydg/5
Weight: 223 grams/6.4 taels
Date: N/A
Inscriptions: 鎔盛鹽課/鎔盛鹽課
Zong Shen (Firm) Salt Tax (Silver)
Notes:
Collection of Hu Chun Chung
No.
Ydg/6
Weight: 173 grams/5- taels
Date: 1835 A.D.
Inscriptions: 道光拾伍年/永茂號易發
Yong Mao Firm Yi Fa (The smith)
The 15th Year of Tao Kuang
Counterstamp: 課
Tax
Notes:
Collection of Hu Chun Chung
No.
Ydg/7
Weight: 208 grams/6- taels
Date: 1805 A.D.
Inscriptions: 嘉慶十年/安寧施体元
The 10th Year of Jia Ching
An Ning District Shi Ti Yuan (The smith)
Counterstamp: 十一月
The 11th Month
Notes:
Collection of Hu Chun Chung
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