World Silver & Bronze Coins (A-Panama)
Lot 3617 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) World Silver & Bronze Coins (A-Panama)
Estimate $300
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CHINA, Late Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911) or Early Republic, silver boat shaped sycee ingot, similar as type to Shandong Province high-sided ingots, 10.0 ounce (330g), with two sets of characters in two rectangular blocks in centre reading 'Long Chang Yin Lu' (Dragon Chang silver foundry or minting establishment), (cf.Cribb 79 [Pl.18]). Very fine and rare.
Cribb comments (p.28) that according to Miyashita, (pp.66-69) the minting establishments in Shanghai were called 'yin lu'. Elsewhere they were known by other names.
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