Talk:Yuan (currency)/Archives/2013

Reword "modern Chinese currencies" in opening sentence?

The article currently begins "The yuan (/jʊˈɑːn/ or /ˈjuːən/; sign: ¥; (Chinese: 元; pinyin: yuán); [ɥɛ̌n] ( listen)) is the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies, and usually refers to the primary unit of account of the renminbi, the currency of the People's Republic of China." From the article, I get the sense that modern chinese currencies here means different currencies from the late 19th- to mid-20th centuries. If that's correct, I think that should be clarified; it's a bit ambiguous whether "modern" means "current", or if it means in the last couple centuries as opposed to the last couple millenia. Agyle (talk) 10:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

If you look at Ancient Chinese coinage (or the books used in reference of that article) you'll find the use of yuan as a unit or name of Chinese currency goes back well over a thousand years. It is not restricted to just modern Chinese currencies at all. Rincewind42 (talk) 14:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)