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Weight | 5.2 grams | Size | 29.7 mm | Material | Solid fine Silver | Obv | Ban Liang, Swastikas above and below, which as well as being is a very old Asian good luck symbol | pinyin | zhū), and was the equivalent of about 16 grams | In 186 BC, the official coin weight was reduced to 8 zhu The liang, the Chinese ounce, consisted of 24 zhu (Chinese: 銖 Thus the original Ban Liang weighed the equivalent of 12 zhu - 8 grams In 186 BC, the official coin weight was reduced to 8 zhu, and in 182 BC, a wu fen (Chinese: 五分 In 175 BC, the weight was set at 4 zhu Private minting was permitted again, but with strict regulation of the weight and alloy
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