PROGRESS OF CHINA.
DECIMAL COINAGE ADOPTED. By Cable—Press Association—CopyngJit Received May 25, 11 p.m. Pekin, May 25. An Imperial edict issued from Pekin establishes the dollar as the standard currency, weighing 72 eandareens, and' subsidiary pieces of fifty, twenty-five, and ten cents, all silver, with five cents in nickel and five milles and one mille in copper. All are fixed values, based on decimal ratio, and cannot be refused or discounted in any part of the Empire, through which they will gradually be circulated.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 39, 26 May 1910, Page 5
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84PROGRESS OF CHINA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 39, 26 May 1910, Page 5
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