Some were recycled for their silver content or simply thrown away to save space.

Customers would pay an additional charge to reflect the extra silver content.

This was slightly less than 1.5 times the silver content of the Gulden.

The silver content of this series was 5.4 g to the peso.

No reference was made to the silver content except on the 5 pesos.

Its mark, 826S, was used until about 1915, when silversmiths raised their silver content to 830 and eventually to 925.

Most of these coins today are usually sold for their silver content.

Which meant that they'd used chains with a high silver content so it would hurt and not just hold.

"I should like to see an actual test of Kendallware's silver content."

In addition the silver content of the half-dollarwas reduced from 90 percent to 40.