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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 382391, member: 2844&quot;]In US silver terms coin silver is .900, after the silver fineness of old US coins.</p><p>There is the .833 silver fineness, based on the 18th century Austrian Maria Theresia Taler (a coin). Although it is usually called MTT silver, some people call that coin silver, because the MTT has been recognized for centuries as a reliable fineness in many parts of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sterling silver is based on Medieval German coins of reliable high fineness which Germans used to trade in the Low Countries.</p><p>The Dutch called the coin &#039;pond oosterling&#039;, pound easterner, because Germany is to the east of the Low Countries.</p><p>The Brits trading with the Dutch thought the two o&#039;s were two zeros, and dropped them. The term pound sterling was born, along with the term sterling silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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