TAEL (

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• MALAY

Malay tail, tahil,

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• WEIGHT

weight, probably connected with

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• HIND

Hind.

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• ZOLA, EMILE EDOUARD CHARLES ANTOINE (1840-1902)

Zola, weight)  , the name current in European usage for the Chinese Jiang or ounce, the Jiang of fine uncoined silver being the monetary unit throughout the Chinese empire . The tael is not a coin, the only silver currency, apart from imported dollars, being the ingots of silver known as " sycee "; the only other native currency is the copper " cash." As a money of account the tael is divided into to mace (tsien), loo conderin or candereen (fun), boo i . The value varies with the price of silver . The " Haikwan tael," i.e. the custom-house tael, that in which duties are paid to the Imperial Maritime Customs, is a weight of 58—77 grains Troy, the value of which varies; thus it was reckoned at 3S. d. in 1905, 3s . 32d. in 1906, 3S . 3d. in 1907, and 2S . 8d. in 1908 (see CHINA: § Finance) .