| 单词 | sycee silver |
| 释义 | > as lemmassycee silver Fine uncoined silver in the form of lumps of various sizes, usually having a banker's or assayer's seal stamped on them, formerly used by the Chinese as a medium of exchange. Also sycee silver. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > uncoined metal as medium of exchange > silver sycee1711 wedge1725 hacksilver1896 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India v. 135 Formerly they used to sell for Sisee, or Silver full fine;..10 Tale of Gold 93 fine, sold for 94 Tale weight of Sisee Silver is 7 above Touch. 1834 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 3 App. 29 Sycee silver..is the only approach to a silver currency among the Chinese. 1865 D. F. Rennie Peking & Pekingese II. 116 The purchase money consisting of sixty-two shoe-shaped ingots of Sycee silver. 1882 ‘Fan Kwae’ at Canton 58 Shroffs were also ‘changers’—providing when required either Sycee, chopped dollars, or gold—as well as bankers. < as lemmas |
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