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Here's a small sampling of 20th Century European Silver. In the picture you have:
>1960 Greece 20 Drachmai, .835 Silver (actually a very common purity in Europe)
>Maria Theresa Thaler, .833 Silver
>1966 Spain 100 Pesetas, .800 Silver
>1938 Yugoslavia 20 Dinara, .750 Silver
>1937 Irish Florin, .750 Silver
>1958 Austria 10 Schillings, .640 Silver
>1972 Germany 10 Mark, .625 Silver
>1941 UK Half Crown, .500 Silver
Also used in the 20th century is:
>.986 Silver used in Silver Britannias before 2012
>.925 Silver used by Britain and Ireland pre-WWI
>.945 Silver Used by the Netherlands pre-WWI
>.900 used by LMU countries for large coins and a few other countries
>.720 Silver used by the Netherlands after WWI in tandem with .640 for small denominations.
>.700 Silver very briefly used by Hungary
>.680 Silver used by France after WWI
>.650 Silver used by Portugal
>.600 Silver used by Turkey and for some Swedish coins before WWII
>.400 Silver used for Swedish coins
>.350 Used for some Finnish coins
There are a lot of countries I didn't list that used several of these purities at different times simply because listing each country next to all the purities it used would take too much time. What makes this especially absurd is that some of these purities were only used for a few years.