Trading Platform-50 Taels
TP50-1
Weight: 1882 g
Date: 1850 A.D.
Inscriptions: 道光三十年月．汾陽縣．匠王炳
The 30th Year of Tao Kuang (1850, 1821-1850)
Feng Yang County (in Shansi Province)
Smith Wang Bin
Chopmark: 志
Zhi (Determination)
Notes:
* Shansi Boat is one of the common types among all 50 taels, but this one dating to the Tao Kuang reign is respectively scarce.
* This piece dated as "the 30th year" of Tao Kuang, rather than "Tao Kuang year" along, was usually used as a tax silver submitted by the provincial government to the imperial government.
* See other Shansi 50 Tael Boats.
* Consigned by C.D.C. for sale.
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