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what is m600 in terms of silver?

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M600 is stamped on the bottom of my antique silver set. Is that weight, or purity?

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June 30, 2012

Ron @ 8:54 pm #

It is a measure of it’s purity it means that the silver set is an alloy of silver and some other metal usually copper, the M600 indicates that there are 600 parts of silver in a 1000 parts of the alloy.