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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 3650304, member: 4373"]It's interesting to note that the 'yuan' character was used in official coinage at different years between Japan, Korea and China.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan's first silver crown was issued in 1870, followed by Korea in 1893 which is extremely rare. (The first silver crown coin was issued the year before - 5 yang).</p><p><br /></p><p>China however had silver crowns issued by various provinces. I believe the first crown coin was issued in Kwangtung province around 1897 (no date) - could be wrong. Kirin province had issued patterns much earlier but I'll leave that aside. The first usage of yuan is only when China is unified and issued coins under China Republic. First yuan coin if I am right was issued in 1914. All other coins were issued in terms of weight - 7.2 mace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally if you consider Hong Kong, which was part of a British colony, they did issue a dollar / yuan coin in 1868.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty interesting eh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 3650304, member: 4373"]It's interesting to note that the 'yuan' character was used in official coinage at different years between Japan, Korea and China. Japan's first silver crown was issued in 1870, followed by Korea in 1893 which is extremely rare. (The first silver crown coin was issued the year before - 5 yang). China however had silver crowns issued by various provinces. I believe the first crown coin was issued in Kwangtung province around 1897 (no date) - could be wrong. Kirin province had issued patterns much earlier but I'll leave that aside. The first usage of yuan is only when China is unified and issued coins under China Republic. First yuan coin if I am right was issued in 1914. All other coins were issued in terms of weight - 7.2 mace. Finally if you consider Hong Kong, which was part of a British colony, they did issue a dollar / yuan coin in 1868. Pretty interesting eh?[/QUOTE]
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