/kloc-there are three kinds of silver in Beijing in the 0 th and 9 th centuries: broken silver, silver ingot and silver dollar. Broken silver and silver ingots are "made in China" and have different colors. Taking grain silver as an example, the author calculated the standard weight of one or two pieces of silver: 37.3 1g, and the weight of pure silver contained in one or two pieces of silver: 34.9g g. One or two pieces of silver like this could buy more than 70 kilograms of ordinary rice in Beijing in A.D. 1884. Since ordinary rice now costs about three yuan per catty, it can be estimated that one or two ounces of silver at that time was equivalent to about 200 yuan now (just to buy rice). With such a silver dollar to buy eggs, you can buy three or four hundred eggs, which is still equivalent to more than two hundred yuan.
About 8 million RMB.