sycee

Lumps of pure silver bearing the stamp of a banker or an assayer and formerly used in China as money.

Properly, an epithet meaning ‘pure,’ applied to the uncoined lumps of silver used by the Chinese as money, but frequently used by itself, in the sense of ‘fine (uncoined) silver.’ See sycee-silver.

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.

An ingot of silver, shaped like a shoe, once used as currency in China.