billon

/bil-uhn/US // ˈbɪl ən //UK // (ˈbɪlən) //

账单,钞票,帐单,账目

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

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.