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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kvasir, post: 97307, member: 4139&quot;]I agree the authenticity is questionable. The picture is upside down even though the text are going in 2 directions on the nugget. These four-character idioms do seem to be of modern generic newspaper/computer type font. Also notice that the first/top character is not aligned with the rest, and that happens uniformly on all 3 stamps, which is kinda strange. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, one can use the middle character as a reference which IS upside down in the picture. The middle character is an archaic script for 萬, which means 10,000. Whether it signifies the value I&#039;m not sure. It may mean 10,000 mil (the common denomination the time) or just a decoration as the character come to mean the idea of &quot;plenty&quot;, sorta like how we use &quot;million&quot; as an arbitrary big number. Otherwise, there is nothing on this nugget that denotes it&#039;s value. In practice there wasn&#039;t really a need for inscription as people simply weighted the nugget to get its value. </p><p><br /></p><p>The alleged source of this nugget from Taiwan gives some credibility to the piece as many people did took their wealth from the Mainland during the civil war between the Communist and Kuomintong. Items like these were less likely to survive in the Mainland during the Japanese Invasion, and the Cultural Revolution that followed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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