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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kardinalisimo, post: 240286, member: 118&quot;]Brought the piece to two pawn shops and their acid tests came negative. So, I guess not silver. Unless silver core with coated alloy on the top but why someone would do that. Or silver content that the test cannot detect? But I doubt that, as if authentic, the bar should be pure or close to pure silver.</p><p>I read that there are some old sycee bars that do not follow the general rule of the weight of 1 teal but they are usually heavier than what supposed to be, not lighter.</p><p>As to the characters, they turned to be all Traditional besides the first one that should be strictly 臺 but here is somewhat abbreviated. I guess such should not be present on official government piece.</p><p>I emailed the person who wrote great material about Chinese sycees but no reply yet.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Sycee_talks.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Sycee_talks.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Sycee_talks.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, the 50 teal bar from pinterest appears to be very close in appearance to mine, so maybe it is not authentic either. Wish there was more info about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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