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| Issuer | Shanghai, City of |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Currency | Tael (1856) |
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| Obverse description | Four columns of four Chinese ideograms each, read vertically from right to left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 足商上咸 紋郁海豐 銀森縣六 餅盛號年 (Translation: Year 6 of Xianfeng Shanghai District Business firm of Yu Sen-sheng Cake of fine silver) |
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| Reverse lettering | 匠重傾朱 萬五曹源 全錢平裕 造銀實監 (Translation: Supervised by Chow Yuen Yu Exact weight of 5 silver Mace Made by Wan Ch`uan, silversmith) |
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