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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 32273, member: 112"]This is true to a degree but only a degree. The Spanish used the very same system but yet mintages are known for each denomination and year. It just takes a bit of work to determine them. You won't get the mintage down to the exact number - but you'll be very close. What the British and Spanish did rather than record the mintage numbers for each denomination was to dictate certain percentages be struck. For example, with the Spanish - for every 100 pesos of silver, 85 were 8 reales, 8 were 4 reales, 4 were 2 reales, 2 were 1 reale and 1 were 1/2 reale. In percentages of silver weight that translates into roughly 57% as 8 reales and 11% each for the other denomoinations. You can be assured the British did something very similar. But they were not. The debasement of coinage was done away with starting with the reign of Louis XIV. So by the time of the reign of Louis XVI - it simply never happened. The silver fineness was .917.[/QUOTE]