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Alright, I've been working on Chinese currencies for years and I still don't get the Qing Dynasty and Republican currency systems. So 1 串 = 10 角 = 100 分 / 仙 = 1000 文, and also 1 兩 = 10 角 = 100 分 / 仙 = 1000 文, and 1 圓 / 元 = 10 角 = 100 分 / 仙 = 1000 文. So 串, 兩, and 圓 seem interchangeable to me, but for whatever reason it's not uncommon for the same bank to issue banknotes denominated in 串, 兩, and 圓. And how is the 吊文 different from the 串文? -- 徵國單 (討論 🀄) (方孔錢 💴) 2019年9月13日 (五) 18:39 (UTC)
In short, there is no relationship between 串, 兩, and 圓.
If a banknote denominated in 串, it denominated in cast cash coins铜钱. The equation of "1 串 = 10 角 = 100 分 / 仙 = 1000 文" is wrong, the right relations is "1 串 ≈ 1000 文". A standard cash(小平钱) valve 1 文 (wen ,cash). for the "串", you can see the article of "String of cash coins (currency unit)"
If a banknote denominated in 兩, it denominated in the weight of silver银两. "1 兩 = 10 钱 = 100 分 = 1000 厘", all of the units are units of weight rather than units of currency.
If a banknote denominated in 圓, it denominated in the modern silver coins 银元. "1 圓 / 元 = 10 角 = 100 分 / 仙 = 1000 厘 / 文", the units of "仙" and "文" usually only appear in Cantonese.--苞米(☎)💴 2019年9月14日 (六) 04:40 (UTC)
the denomination is 7 mace and 2 candareens and 七钱二分, which is equal to 0.72 两/taels, is the weight of silver. We also can call it 1 圓/元/Yuan/Dollar.
the denomination is 100 (Chingping Tsuyin) Taels and (京平足銀) 100 兩, means the banknote's valve is equal to 100 taels of silver
Wow, thanks a lot for the clarification, do you have a source? (especially online) so I can use this in an article for clarification? -- 徵國單 (討論 🀄) (方孔錢 💴) 2019年9月14日 (六) 17:59 (UTC)
There is a Chinese article of 论我国现代货币单位“元、角、分”体系的确立 from 史学月刊(Journal of Historical Science):
铜钱为国家铸币（明清两代称本朝官铸钱为“制钱”），计数单位为“文”，辅助单位百、千（或串、吊、贯）
The copper coins were minted by the government (The cast cash coins minted by their own dynasty were called as "standard cash" during Ming and Qing dynastys), the unit of cash coin is "文"(wen/cash), superunits included hundred(百), thousand(千), thousand(千) can also be called as 串, 吊 or 贯.
贵金属货币白银由民间自由铸造，称量单位是“两”，辅助单位有钱、分、厘
Silver, as precious metal currency, was allowed to be cast by the public, its base unit was "两"（liang/tael）, and subunits included mace(钱/qian), candareen(分/fen), li(厘).
"分" is very common in traditional Chinese measurement system, it is 1/100 of 尺(Chi, Chinese foot) as a unit of length, and 1/100 of 两 (tael) as a unit of weight, and 1/100 of 畝 (Mu, Chinese acre) as a unit of area. After 元/圓/Yuan/Dollar was accepted as a currency unit, "分" was also used as a currency unit which valved 1/100 of 元/圓/Yuan/Dollar and could be translated as "cent" in English.--苞米(☎)💴 2019年9月15日 (日) 01:32 (UTC)
Thank you very much (謝謝您). -- 徵國單 (討論 🀄) (方孔錢 💴) 2019年9月16日 (一) 07:24 (UTC)
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The development team is starting work on one of the last planned features for SDC v1.0, a lightweight tool to suggest depicts tags for images. I've published a project page for it, please have a look. I plan to share this page with everyone on Commons much more broadly in the coming days. The tool has been carefully designed to try to not increase any workload on Commons volunteers; for starters, it will be opt-in for auto-confirmed users only and will not generate any sort of backlog here on Commons. Additionally, the tool is highly privacy-minded for the contributors and publicly-minded for the third party being used, in this case Google. The implementation and usage notes contain more information about these and other potential concerns as a starting place. It's really important that the tool is implemented properly from the start, so feedback is welcome. Questions, comments, concerns are welcome on the talk page and I will get answers as quickly as possible as things come up. On the talk page you can also sign up to make sure you're a part of the feedback for designs and prototype testing. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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Currency units of banknotes of the Qing dynasty
