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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7533959, member: 115909&quot;]The coinage in the old days in America was 90% silver for coins like the Morgan Dollar and 90% gold for coins like the St. Gaudens Double Eagle</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But does anyone happen to know what the purity was for Ancient Greek coins like the silver drachma and gold stater were?</p><p><br /></p><p>Did the Ancients alloy the precious metals in coins with metals like copper for durability?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or did they use the purest precious metals they could get?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do know that the Roman aureus was as close to 99% as they could get back in those days but I do not know about Ancient Greek coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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