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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4535291, member: 19463&quot;]As you state, there is no consensus and you can&#039;t expect people to adhere to some rule made up by one &#039;expert&#039; but not supported by others.&nbsp; To me, for my purposes. Silver looks like silver, Billon is too porous of gray to look silver and coins with so little silver content that they require silver was to look silver are AE.&nbsp; No one is expected to agree with me.&nbsp; It is quite possible that the same mint in the same year might issue a coin I called silver and a coin I called billon.&nbsp; My way is more a description of the &#039;look&#039; than some scientific truth. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is this too smooth and silvery to be billon or too debased to be silver?&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what we call it as long as we realize that it is from a transition period when the alloy was not all that good but better than it soon would be.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122955[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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