Cross-country learning guide
Chinese Silver Circulation
A guide to silver by weight, foreign dollars, provincial and central coins, merchant acceptance, and the boundaries of a future China catalog.
- Routes
- 14
- Relationships
- 8
- Ports
- 8
- Status
- Published
Scope boundary
China context before a China catalog
Phase 12 explains silver circulation but does not publish a complete China taxonomy.
Keeps its Mexican, Spanish-American, Japanese, British, or other host identity.
Silver by weight, not a struck coin series.
Requires its own province, mint, standard, and type boundary.
Must not absorb provincial dragon dollars into one catch-all series.
A different object or event from official coin issuance.
Documented object
1911 central dragon dollar with chopmarks
The British Museum object establishes a Chinese host, 26.52 g observed weight, 39 mm diameter, and visible chopmarks. Its image remains pending local commercial-rights review.
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