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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 366772, member: 2844"]Most jewellery from Africa, the Middle East and many other parts of the world was made from coins because of the reliable silver fineness. Most popular was the Austro-Hungarian Maria Theresia Thaler (MTT), first minted in 1741, with a fineness of 833. Silver in many countries was or is based on the MTT.</p><p>Here is a Yemeni pendant with an MTT, the coin itself was shown as a status symbol, to prove the quality of the silver:</p><p><img src="https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Farabiafelixjewels.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F02%2Fmaria-teresa.jpg&sp=1d681ce13aa48507234b1b708e26fa12" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 366772, member: 2844"]Most jewellery from Africa, the Middle East and many other parts of the world was made from coins because of the reliable silver fineness. Most popular was the Austro-Hungarian Maria Theresia Thaler (MTT), first minted in 1741, with a fineness of 833. Silver in many countries was or is based on the MTT. Here is a Yemeni pendant with an MTT, the coin itself was shown as a status symbol, to prove the quality of the silver: [IMG]https://s17-us2.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Farabiafelixjewels.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F02%2Fmaria-teresa.jpg&sp=1d681ce13aa48507234b1b708e26fa12[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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