One less 1/10 silver Britannia in tube for 2023

[LawrenceChard]

21 minutes ago, StackemHigh said:

With China being such an old country i'd have thought that they would have their own archaic imperial weights and measures that would show them westerners a thing or two. Instead going for the more modern SI system.

They did use to use "taels" for precious metals, along with cash, candareens, and mace, for other coin weights.

People's Republic of China, 
The Government of the People's Republic of China continued using the market system along with metric system, as decreed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China on 25 June 1959, but 1 catty being 500 grams, would become divided into 10 (new) taels, instead of 16 (old) taels, to be converted from province to province, while exempting Chinese prescription drugs from the conversion to prevent errors.

On 27 February 1984, the State Council of the People's Republic of China decreed the market system to remain acceptable till the end of 1990 and ordered the transition to the national legal measures by that time, but farmland measures would be exempt from this mandatory metrication until further investigation and study.

For anyone interested in reading more, or suffering from insomnia, it could be worth reading the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement

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[LawrenceChard]

37 minutes ago, StackemHigh said:

With China being such an old country i'd have thought that they would have their own archaic imperial weights and measures that would show them westerners a thing or two. Instead going for the more modern SI system.

 

9 minutes ago, LawrenceChard said:

They did use to use "taels" for precious metals, along with cash, candareens, and mace, for other coin weights.

People's Republic of China, 
The Government of the People's Republic of China continued using the market system along with metric system, as decreed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China on 25 June 1959, but 1 catty being 500 grams, would become divided into 10 (new) taels, instead of 16 (old) taels, to be converted from province to province, while exempting Chinese prescription drugs from the conversion to prevent errors.

On 27 February 1984, the State Council of the People's Republic of China decreed the market system to remain acceptable till the end of 1990 and ordered the transition to the national legal measures by that time, but farmland measures would be exempt from this mandatory metrication until further investigation and study.

For anyone interested in reading more, or suffering from insomnia, it could be worth reading the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement

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I just noticed this onthe Wikipedia page:

Hong Kong troy units[edit]

These are used for trading precious metals such as gold and silver.

Table of mass (Hong Kong troy) units^[7]

English	Character	Relative value	Metric value	Imperial value	Notes
candareen troy	金衡分	1⁄100	374.29 mg	0.096 drt
mace troy	金衡錢	1⁄10	3.7429 g	0.96 drt
tael troy	金衡兩	1	37.429 g	1.2 ozt

Which really makes things clear (or not as the case may be)

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