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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 32279, member: 708&quot;]Hmm interesting, so where did they get the silver from then? One can ionly assume that they must have melted down old issues, or perhaps this is where the British coins ended up, shipped to the continent to be sold as scrap. So perhaps France wasn&#039;t as short of silver. That&#039;s only an hypothesis. I&#039;m probably wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the mintage ratio figures i email the Royal Mint about those and a guy who works there is looking through the archives for me, he said other people have asked before now, but he hasn&#039;t got back to me in a while, i&#039;ll have to give him a bell and see how it&#039;s going.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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