I suspect your paint guy has mixed up some stock Avus Silver from the code, which would probably have matched fine 20 years ago. Alas, over that last 20 years the paint on the car has lightened somewhat (its darker under the badges), and so it no longer matches the code. I have another Avus S8 which has exactly the same issue on the fuel filler flap - just a shade darker than the rest of the car.
When I had it painted they scanned the bootlid to get the exact shade and mixed the paint to suit what the car actually was, rather than what the original recipe says, hence it was a better match.
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