UK Sterling Silver retailer, ACSilver, has an attractive website with good photos for identification, a built-in currency converter, and information like this: “Britannia standard silver was introduced by the British government in 1697 to denote an alloy of silver containing 95.84% silver, with the balance usually copper. Since the hallmarking changes of 1999 Britannia silver has been denoted by the hallmark 958.”
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