Définition

• A Chinese weight, equivalent to about a drachm, and occasionally found Stamped on some of the earlier coins. The name may be derived from Tsu, the most southerly State of China in the last centuries before the Christian era.

  The Chu and its multiples became the standard coins of the Chinese Empire during many of the later dynasties. See Wu Tchu.

La source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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