339, Lot: 628. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, Sycee. Yúnnán Province. Tianheli Bank. Circa 19th-early 20th centuries AD. AR 5 Tael Sycee (51.5x35mm, 186.45 g). Yunnan sanchuo jieding (Yunnan three-stamp remittance ingot) type. Tong, She, and Zhou, public assayers. Tian He Li Hao Hui Hao Wen Yin (Tiianheli Bank, remittance bank fine silver) in Hànzì within three rectangular cartouches; to left and right, assayer stamps in Hànzì. Cf. BMC Sycee class LXVI. VF, test cuts at bottom.