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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1175724, member: 59"]Okay - I just pulled up the article on Baltimore assay and marks and the period covered ends at approximately 1830 (which was just about the time that Ira and William Canfield established Canfield and Brother. The silver fineness before 1830 falls into the category we today refer to as "coin." (although at 91.7% it's higher than generic coin and lower than the sterling standard.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the article: <a href="https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Msc/BaltimoreAssayMks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Msc/BaltimoreAssayMks.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Msc/BaltimoreAssayMks.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you don't want to test the ones that don't say sterling now, you'd be safe calling them coin. But if at some point you decide to sell, you really should test them rather than leave money on the table.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1175724, member: 59"]Okay - I just pulled up the article on Baltimore assay and marks and the period covered ends at approximately 1830 (which was just about the time that Ira and William Canfield established Canfield and Brother. The silver fineness before 1830 falls into the category we today refer to as "coin." (although at 91.7% it's higher than generic coin and lower than the sterling standard.) Here's the article: [URL]https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Msc/BaltimoreAssayMks.html[/URL] If you don't want to test the ones that don't say sterling now, you'd be safe calling them coin. But if at some point you decide to sell, you really should test them rather than leave money on the table.[/QUOTE]
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