sgt23 wrote:

I always get tricked by coins of most countries. The problem is that
its hard too tell or remember which years the countrys put silver in
their coins, and when they stopped. I pretty much have the United
States and Canada down. Plus its not very confortable carrying around
the big cataloge of world coins. Any suggestion that might help?

Get a cell phone with a web browser, and a numismaster.com account

Well, it may be easier (especially if you focus on certain countries) to
make a brief list of the denominations that used to have silver and then
went to CuNi or other alloys. As for the last silver circulation coins
from around here, Austria used silver (Ag640) for the 10 ATS coins until
1973, Germany (Ag625) for the 5 DEM pieces until 1974. The Netherlands
switched in 1967 (1 and 2.50 NLG coins, Ag720), and Switzerland in 1968
(5 CHF, Ag835). All these countries still issue silver coins at face
value, but those are rarely accepted by stores and hardly circulate.

Christian