10 Tales Sycee Salt Tax Ingot, Ponterio - Need help with catalog identification

I won this 10 taels sycee salt tax ingot in 2005, during the New York International Coin Fair auction conducted by Ponterio and Associates, Sale 133. The lot number is 2032.

I forgot to note the catalog references, as well as province, which I think is Yunnan.

The weight of this sycee is 322.4 grams.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks

 

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While not the same it is similar to this:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1140493

Pretty cool piece.

 

Thanks.

Sorry for the misspelling of taels in the thread's header. I guess I had Dickens on the mind when creating it.

 

I did a recalculation of the weight, and it comes out to 8.6 taels, based on a tael weight of 37.46737 grams for a tael. I need to decipher the date, but it appears to be some month in 1859.

Here's a link to a very similar example:



https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=319&lot=51024

 

I see a date of 同治九年 (Tongzhi year 9). That would be around 1870.

 

This is a very interesting piece!!! Thanks for showing - that worked out to be a challenge.

From what I understand:

平遠縣 (written from right to left) - Pingyung Country (Guangdong / Kwangtung)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingyuan_County,_Guangdong

同治九年 - 1870

十二月銀匠陸裕祥 - December, Silversmith


I am still not sure if it is from Yunnan Province unless I typed in something wrong.

 

Thank you!

Thanks!

I really appreciate the help from both of you.