billon / ˈbɪl ən /
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billon 的定义
n. 名词 noun- an alloy used in coinage, consisting of gold or silver with a larger amount of base metal.
- an alloy of silver with copper or the like, used for coins of small denomination.
- any coin struck from such an alloy.
更多billon例句
- The particular coins so designated, were billon or copper, and are described in Lindsay's "Coinage of Scotland," p. 183.
- From Severus onwards the silver coinage had in fact become "mere billon money," mostly copper.
- The same result could be got by taking the billon money of Florence and calculating from its silver contents.
- In this rsum the mention of billon money has been generally avoided, as unduly complicating the subject.
- The gold coins do not so signally fail; it is in the inferior metals, especially the billon and copper, that the difficulty lies.