"Space Cowboy" > writes:

> A vendor on Ebay is listing some Puer in taels and not grams. One of
> the conversion sites gave 1.2oz or 37.5g for a tael. So is tael a
> Chinese, British or IM unit?

Chinese.

> If Chinese how common is it? Or is it some trading unit which I've
> never seen. It seems odd it isn't a multiple of oz or gram like a
> catty which is 500g.

I've no idea how common this unit is in non-tea spheres, but it's
often used in 100- and 1000-tael sizes of compressed aged (or
age-able?) teas.

/Lew
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