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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 4309922, member: 59"][USER=22714]@Francisco G Kempton[/USER] Not sure where you got the idea that the USA used .800 silver. Perhaps you have confused what we call "Coin silver" (and would usually about .900 fineness because of the coins that were melted to make silver objects back before the discovery of silver in the West?)</p><p><br /></p><p>But you are correct that we did not and still do not have an official assay requirement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 4309922, member: 59"][USER=22714]@Francisco G Kempton[/USER] Not sure where you got the idea that the USA used .800 silver. Perhaps you have confused what we call "Coin silver" (and would usually about .900 fineness because of the coins that were melted to make silver objects back before the discovery of silver in the West?) But you are correct that we did not and still do not have an official assay requirement.[/QUOTE]
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