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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2655930, member: 12789&quot;]They were a very common store of value in a country where people didn&#039;t trust paper money.&nbsp; A number of these pieces came over to the states after the war ended in 1975.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t trade on the stated weight of a tael, but rather by the weight of the gold coupled with the price of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father in law bought some of these and held onto them for years before sellilng them to a dealer for melt value.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now they are somewhat of a collectable - particularly so if you have the wrapping papers they came in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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