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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26122955, member: 4626&quot;]That&#039;s precisely why they changed from .900 to .999 silver; it saves them money for two reasons:</p><p>1. .900 is a standard that by 2018 was only used by the US Mint.&nbsp; US law requires the Mint to only use silver bought from US silver mines, that were free to sell to anyone; they had to make custom batches of the .900 silver alloy for the mint while .999 is a standard they already made for several customers.&nbsp; Using what the mines already were producing saved them money and gave them more sources to buy from.</p><p>2. .999 silver is significantly softer than .900 silver, so the dies used to mint silver coins have much longer useful lives, somewhere on the order of being able to be used 3 to 4 times longer before they wore out.</p><p><br /></p><p>This required them to repeal a law passed in 1835 that required them to use .900 silver for silver coins (except for American silver eagles, authorized in a separate piece of legislation that always specified them to be minted in .999 silver).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since 2019 all US silver coins, including commemoratives and silver proofs, have been minted in .999 silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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