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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8343565, member: 110226"]The Chinese were very good at detecting debased coinage and by extension sycee. The banks and merchants who produced these ingots would have their reputations badly discredited if they attempted to produced ingots of a debased nature. I am sure that there were deceptive practices producing sycee, the same as coinage with contemporary counterfeits, though I have not encountered from my limited collecting of sycee any contemporary fakes, but modern fakes abound.</p><p><br /></p><p>The production of sycee was widespread in China, not limited to just Yunnan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Shanxi 50 sycee "boat" (not seaworthy by any stretch of the imagination). This example was purchased in 1993 from Scott Semans.</p><p><br /></p><p>The measurements are 100 mm wide, 70 mm high and 67 mm deep.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the label:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479813[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Top view:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479815[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Side view:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479816[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom view:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479817[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Enlargement of the top:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479826[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The shape of this sycee is quite distinctive, with its folded rim, unlike the more typical pointed rim. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a map showing Shanxi Province, bordering Inner Mongolia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479820[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8343565, member: 110226"]The Chinese were very good at detecting debased coinage and by extension sycee. The banks and merchants who produced these ingots would have their reputations badly discredited if they attempted to produced ingots of a debased nature. I am sure that there were deceptive practices producing sycee, the same as coinage with contemporary counterfeits, though I have not encountered from my limited collecting of sycee any contemporary fakes, but modern fakes abound. The production of sycee was widespread in China, not limited to just Yunnan. Here is my Shanxi 50 sycee "boat" (not seaworthy by any stretch of the imagination). This example was purchased in 1993 from Scott Semans. The measurements are 100 mm wide, 70 mm high and 67 mm deep. Here's the label: [ATTACH=full]1479813[/ATTACH] Top view: [ATTACH=full]1479815[/ATTACH] Side view: [ATTACH=full]1479816[/ATTACH] Bottom view: [ATTACH=full]1479817[/ATTACH] Enlargement of the top: [ATTACH=full]1479826[/ATTACH] The shape of this sycee is quite distinctive, with its folded rim, unlike the more typical pointed rim. Here's a map showing Shanxi Province, bordering Inner Mongolia. [ATTACH=full]1479820[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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