Millesimal Fineness - Silver

Silver

  • 999.9 (Ultra-fine silver used by Royal Canadian Mint in the Canadian Silver Maple Leaf)
  • 999 (Fine silver used in Good Delivery bullion bars, also known as three nines fine)
  • 980 (common standard used in Mexico ca.1930 - 1945)
  • 958 (equivalent to Britannia silver)
  • 950 (equivalent to French 1st Standard)
  • 925 (equivalent to Sterling silver)
  • 900 (equivalent to Coin silver in the USA, also known as one nine fine)
  • 835 (a standard predominantly used in Germany after 1884)
  • 833 (common standard used in continental silver especially among the Dutch, Swedish, and Germans)
  • 830 (common standard used in older Scandinavian silver)
  • 800 (minimum standard for silver in Germany after 1884; Egyptian silver; Canadian silver circulating coinage)
  • 750 (uncommon silver standard found in older German, Swiss and Austro-Hungarian silver)

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Famous quotes containing the word silver:

    “Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
    That blessed wight:
    The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
    In princely plight.
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, is to make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear,
    That summons you to all the pride of pray’r:
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)