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:
“Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:8.
“Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)
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