Hello Carol, Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 12:07:51 PM, you wrote:
C> I checked into this and the Canadian coins were only .8? pure from what they C> told me at the coin shop but you can get silver ingets(bars) 1oz. each that C> are .999 silver at coin shops for about $5.75 each. Carol We are not talking Canadian currency. The Maple Leaf coins are known worldwide for their purity. To have an "edge" in the collectors market, each country has to offer something that they feel is superior to everything else out there. Canada offers the highest metal purity, and all of the Silver Maple Leafs are stamped .9999 fine. They are probably purer than that. Some specialty gold coins come in purities up to .99999 fine. Canada refines their metals right at the mint. The Discovery Channel had an exceptional piece on the Royal Canadian Mint earlier this year that went into great detail. The Maple Leaf series is considered a "bullion coin". They do mint other coins in sterling silver as well. Have a look at....... http://www.mint.ca/en/business_services/bullion.htm -- Best regards, Solar mailto:[email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
