← Read the currency articleChinese customs gold unit: research record
Evidence coverage: 1930–1948. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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Chinese customs gold unit
CUR-V26-CUSTOMS-GOLD-UNIT · Research draft
Separate customs bookkeeping unit introduced1930; circulating CGU notes are instruments, not the identity.
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1930–1948; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
Children / successors
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Latest research
Historical account researchA customs gold unit was created; contemporary report explicitly describes it as a bookkeeping unit rather than general currency.
Sources and qualifications → Historical account researchCGU notes were redeemed at150000per goldyuan in1948. This documents instrument redemption into the existing ROC yuan identity; it does not by itself date the ending of the distinct customs assessment account.
Sources and qualifications → Historical account researchFiscal bookkeeping denomination is sufficient under account-unit ontology even where contemporary author contrasts it with circulating currency. Notes are incidental; do not describe gold content or note issue as identity basis.
Sources and qualifications → Unit-of-account identity reviewFiscal bookkeeping denomination is sufficient under account-unit ontology even where contemporary author contrasts it with circulating currency. Notes are incidental; do not describe gold content or note issue as identity basis.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1930supportedA customs gold unit was created; contemporary report explicitly describes it as a bookkeeping unit rather than general currency.
C1386 1948supportedCGU notes were redeemed at150000per goldyuan in1948. This documents instrument redemption into the existing ROC yuan identity; it does not by itself date the ending of the distinct customs assessment account.
C1514
Evidence & research notes 4 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan. Narrow fiscal account identity admitted. No ancestry from gold bullion, no assumption CGU creation extinguished haikwan everywhere; export-duty haikwan survived to1933. Need1948conversion/termination order separately.
Supported C1386
A customs gold unit was created; contemporary report explicitly describes it as a bookkeeping unit rather than general currency.
United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 Citation S541 ·
Open source ↗printed40 andfootnote38
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1514
CGU notes were redeemed at150000per goldyuan in 1948. This documents instrument redemption into the existing ROC yuan identity; it does not by itself date the ending of the distinct customs assessment account.
Shandong provincial gazetteer, Zhifu district history · Fabi and gold-yuan section Citation S846 ·
Open source ↗Opening paragraph
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1567
Fiscal bookkeeping denomination is sufficient under account-unit ontology even where contemporary author contrasts it with circulating currency. Notes are incidental; do not describe gold content or note issue as identity basis.
United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 Citation S541 ·
Open source ↗China customs-gold discussion, printed p.40 footnote 38; Ceylon and Mauritius country sections (Mauritius printed p.79)
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1665
Import duties and levies based on them were changed from Haikwan-tael reckoning to customs gold units effective1February1930; this is a partial fiscal-account succession, not all customs accounting.
Yan Hongzhong · Standard and credit: modern Chinese silver monetary institutions and their transformation Citation S745 ·
Open source ↗SectionIV(1),1930order paragraph
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Archival decree itself not inspected.