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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2885752, member: 19463&quot;]Whatever the percentages, it is usual to see Philip in good looking silver, frequent in Decius, occasional in Gallus and rare after the first years of Valerian/Gallienus joint reign.&nbsp; Some coins benefited from surface enrichment but there is a point in the alloy where the silver fights to look gray and loses.&nbsp; Postumus issued a few coins that looked decent in the ~20% range but it was straight downhill after that.&nbsp; Our terms for alloys of precious metals allows some fudging.&nbsp; Is 10k gold really gold with a lot of alloy or alloy with a bit of gold?&nbsp; If we applied the rules required in food labels, 10/24ths would not make gold the first ingredient but we are willing to accept 10/24 silver as &#039;decent&#039;. I consider Decius the end of &#039;decent&#039; but everyone has an opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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