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The 3 Mark coins are 16.667 grams in weight and have a diameter of 33 mm. The 5 Mark coins are 27.778 grams in weight and have a diameter of 38 mm. In general a Mark represented 5 grams of silver. A 5 Mark silver coin thus contained 25 g silver; by contrast there were also 5 Mark gold coins with a content of 1.79 g of gold.
The Scandinavian silver alloy contains 83% pure silver and 17% copper or other metals. [10] German silver will be marked with a millesimal fineness of 800 or 835 (80% or 83.5% pure silver). Any items simply marked "German silver", "nickel silver" or "Alpaca" have no silver content at all, but are mere alloys of other base metals. [citation needed]
European Year of Monument Protection. 5 DM, silver, 1975. 300th death anniversary of Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen. 5 DM, silver, 1976. 200th birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss. 5 DM, silver, 1977. 200th birthday of Heinrich von Kleist. 5 DM, silver, 1977. 100th birthday of Gustav Stresemann. 5 DM, silver, 1978.
The French have two standards for silver purity or fineness. The higher is 950 parts per thousand, or 95% silver referred to as 1st Standard. The lower grade of silver is 800 parts per thousand, or 80% silver referred to as 2nd Standard. Both standards are marked with the head of Minerva inclusive of a numeral 1 or 2 to indicate the standard.
Only single silver pennies were struck. In the Empire of Francia from about 800 AD, only pure silver currency was valid, the coin weight of which was based on the pound. Gold solidi (gold schillings) were a rare exception. Thus the solidus was purely a coin of account as well as being a unit of weight and the gold equivalent of 12 silver pfennigs.
"German silver" hair comb by Bruce Caesar. Nickel silver, maillechort, German silver, [1] argentan, [1] new silver, [1] nickel brass, [2] albata, [3] or alpacca [4] is a cupronickel (copper with nickel) alloy with the addition of zinc. The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc. [5] Nickel silver does not contain the element ...
Under the new Imperial Minting Standard (Reichsmünzfuß) it weighed 1 ⁄ 8 th a Cologne Mark of silver or 29.232 g, and had a fineness 0.9375. However, its longest-lasting standard coin was the Reichsthaler ("imperial thaler") defined in 1566 as containing 1 ⁄ 9 th a Cologne Mark of fine silver, or 25.984 g.
The Vereinsthaler (German: [fɛɐ̯ˈʔaɪnsˌtaːlɐ], union thaler) was a standard silver coin used in most German states and the Austrian Empire in the years before German unification. The Vereinsthaler was introduced in 1857 to replace the various versions of the North German thaler, many of which were already set at par with the Prussian ...