#sycee

I found Mom a shiny golden sycee to wish her a prosperous Lunar “Moo” Year!  All hail Emperor Kirby!  🧧👑🐢✨🐮🏮

✨  In imperial China, gold and silver ingots used as currency (called “sycees”) were minted in many different shapes, from squares to flowers to even tortoises.  Today, boat-shaped sycees are popular for Lunar New Year to symbolize prosperity and good fortune—or to make a festive hat if you’re a tiny tortoise!  🍫🎩

(Such a shame that tortoise-shaped sycees aren’t more popular!)

Do you have anything else for Emperor Kirby?

Emperor Kirby will not take “no” for an answer!

Beware Emperor Kirby’s STOMPs of wrath!

Emperor Kirby demands noms NOW!

拼音：yín dìng 英文：sycee 银锭 (1711年进入英语）/silver ingot 笔顺：

什么是银锭？

明太祖朱元璋登基前后，民间业务往来多用金银。洪武八年（1375）宝钞（即钞）发行后，朝廷曾多次下令禁止民间以金银为钱币进行交易，违者治罪。但当局发钞铸钱（见制钱）仍以银价为标准。银钞之间、银钱之间都有一定的比价，同年定价，银一两可当钱一千文，当钞一贯。明英宗登基后，放宽用银的禁令，收赋有米麦折银之令，并减少种种纳钞项目，以米银钱当钞。

自明初开银禁后，物价多按银两盘算。从以银表现的金价、米价、绢价看，明代白银的购置力大大高于宋元时期。宋元时，金一两约合银十两三钱，明时则为六两四钱七分；宋元时江南米一石约值银一两八钱四分，明时仅九钱四分多些，宋元时，绢一匹约值银一两五钱七分，明时仅六钱。按此价综合盘算，明代白银的购置力约比宋、元时期高出一倍左右。但明代仍无银币。

银锭子作用

作为通货用的白银，通常是铸成两头翘起的船形银锭（银元宝），银条和码形的银锭则非常少见，小额业务则利用碎银。

元宝银锭大小不一，大元宝一锭重至五十两者，也有重二十两的。其上有铸造所在、重量和银匠姓名等笔墨。小锭上的笔墨几多纷歧。银锭和碎银的重量差别等，成色也各有差别，每次付出时都需秤称分量和判定成色，多有不便。

: a Chinese unit of weight, usually equal to about 50 grams (though in instances it can vary to as low as about 30 grams). 

A tael was once also a Chinese monetary unit, equal to the value of a tael of silver, as seen here, from Simon Winchester’s The River at the Center of the World:

“And so a few months later, with a silk merchant acting as intermediary between the court and the [British] merchants, the the [railroad] line was sold for a quarter of a million Shanghai taels.”

TAELS of silver and gold were denominated into SYCEES (see below), currencies created by local silversmiths in varying shapes and designs.

New Papercraft has been published on PaperCraftSquare: Link: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/origami-sycee-free-diagram-download.html Paper Craft Name: Origami Sycee Free Diagram Download Description:

This paper craft is an Origami Sycee, designed by Ronald Koh. A sycee was a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in China until the 20th century. The name derives from the Cantonese words meaning “fine silk”.

In North China, the word yuanbao, was used for similar ingots. This word is attested in the 19th-century English-language literature on Xinjiang and the trade between Xinjiang and British India as yamboo or yambu. For more information please click here.

You can download this diagram here: Origami Sycee Free Diagram Download

Gold Sycees

A sycee was a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in China until the 20th century. Sycees were made by individual silversmiths for local exchange; consequently, the shape and amount of extra detail on each ingot were highly variable.