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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ikandiggit, post: 943015, member: 16269&quot;]This is from wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>customs gold unit</b> (<i>CGU</i>) was a currency issued by the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_China" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_China" rel="nofollow">Central Bank of China</a></i>&nbsp; between 1930 and 1948. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" rel="nofollow">Chinese</a>, the name of the currency was 關金圓, literally&nbsp; &quot;customs gold yuan&quot; but the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" rel="nofollow">English</a> name given on the back of the notes was &quot;customs&nbsp; gold unit&quot;. It was divided into 100 cents (關金分). As the name suggests,&nbsp; this currency was initially used for customs payments, but in 1942 it&nbsp; was put into general circulation for use by the public at 20 times its&nbsp; face value in terms of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan" rel="nofollow">first&nbsp; Chinese yuan</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_customs_gold_unit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_customs_gold_unit" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_customs_gold_unit</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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