Tael, a money of account in China, is equivalent to a tael weight of pure silver, or to about 1250 of the copper coin known as 'cash.' The value of the Haikwan tael or customs tael is about 4s. 9d. English, varying with the price of silver. In 1890 it was superseded by the new dollar, equal to that of the United States.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 46
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