351, Lot: 752. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, Sycee. Yúnnán Province. Tongbaoyu Bank. Circa 19th-early 20th centuries AD. AR 5.5 Tael Sycee (60x35mm, 192.8 g). Yunnan sanchuo jieding (Yunnan three-stamp remittance ingot) type. Tong, She, and Duan, public assayers. Tong Bao Yu Ji Hui Hao We Yin (Tongbaoyu Bank, remittance bank fine silver) in Hànzì within three rectangular cartouches; to left and right, assayer stamps in Hànzì. BMC Sycee class LXVI, group I, 893. VF, collection sticker on bottom.

Ex Ponterio 135 (9 September 2005), lot 890.