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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2491586, member: 4373&quot;]There is a reason for this - tael weight varied from provinces and it depended on the era as well. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael</a> My impression is it&#039;s 37.5g, not 38g. But again, coins struck in those era were often underweight so I would not be surprised to see one example weighting 37 grams or less. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you picked one up from ebay at a &#039;bargain&#039; price - there&#039;s a crap lot of counterfeits. This was cheap at one stage until the last five years when prices started to skyrocket. </p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, if this cannot answer your question - welcome to Chinese numismatics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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