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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 9571568, member: 111&quot;]Heh, not really, Komo.&nbsp; &quot;American coin silver&quot; wasn&#039;t really a term used until makers started stamping &#039;Coin&#039; in the early 19th century, and it was common to melt down silver items including coins, flatware, holloware, etc. in order to make new pieces prior to a reliable source of silver in the U.S., so the quality would vary according the the source of the material.&nbsp; I&#039;m on my phone at the moment, but somewhere in my computer files have the copies of the XRF studies done at Winterthur, and later on California silver, and that testing did include &#039;Sterling&#039; pieces that tested well below .925, which at the point they were made was, ummm, problematic...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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