billon in English

noun
1
an alloy formerly used for coinage, containing gold or silver with a predominating amount of copper or other base metal.
The falling value of the Scottish currency derived in part from the practice of mixing silver with alloy to produce the base metal billon .

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1. Baiocco definition is - a minor billon or copper coin of the former Papal States equal to 1/10₀scudo

2. Bawbee: A Scotch billon coin, weighing about 29 grains troy, first issued in 1542 by James V

3. Philippe Le Billon describes a war economy as a "system of producing, mobilizing and allocating resources to sustain the violence."

4. • Tu n'en fis pas assez, reine de sang Avide ; Il fallait joindre encor l'inceste au parricide ! (CRÉBILLON Sémir

5. 27 Jean Louis Billon is president of the country's chamber of commerce and the chairman of the SIFCA group here, which trades in palm oil, rubber and sugar.

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