Examples of silver

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Under his plan a dollar, defined in terms of its gold and silver content, would have the same value throughout the union.
Then he would cover the seal with a paste mainly consisting of liquid silver to make a copy.
Where ' silver ' is not specified, it is assumed that the payment was to be in paper roubles (assignat).
Rather, because gold and silver were regarded as property of high value, throughout the ancient and medieval periods they were used in gift giving.
Unfortunately there are no entries that would allow us to confirm the use of silver as a currency prior to the 1560s.
A warlike race was developed which was also knowledgeable in metal-working, and gold and silver mining.
He recognized that, unlike gold and silver, bulky copper cash did not return to the cities but stayed in the countryside.
Their debased silver content places them late in the sceatta series, probably around 740.
We have record of four denominations, two each in silver and copper.
Non-ferrous metals like copper and lead played an especially important role in compensating for silver's fall.
Increasing levels of export diversification moderated but did not entirely negate silver's impact over the long term.
Prominent vein clearing was the first visible symptom followed by silvering of leaves, except in gherkin, which developed faint vein clearing and mild silvering symptoms.
The signet rings were probably the prerogative of the rich, as they were often made of gold or silver.
The silver content of the ore was also high.
Ideally, children should be offered regular experience of both wet and dry, coarse and silver sand.
Nevertheless, there would appear to be an optimum recipe, especially in the silver and copper content used to manufacture the brooches found in each cemetery.
Note that no data for silver and gold reserves could be established.
Chlorinated silver-silver chloride junctions were used to maintain electrical contact between the electrodes and input of preamplifier.
Amplification products were resolved on 6% denaturating polyacrylamide gels with silver staining.
In other words, humans have a remarkable ability to look on a horror and see a silver lining.
If others can learn from what we went through, maybe there is a silver lining.
Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.
Although silver is normally lumped together with gold, there seem to have been certain differences between gold and silver in their characteristics as a currency.
Let us look at the gold and silver prices in the mid-sixteenth century.
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