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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1753246, member: 19463"]Billon should not have 'breaks'. It can be a uniform mixture of metals of which a minor part may be silver. Sometimes you see them poorly mixed but often they are just grainy and gray. Breaks come when billon degenerated to a point where it was no longer gray so some mints added plating that can break and reveal darker metals below. I might define billon as very base silver too coarse to feel right calling it silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1753246, member: 19463"]Billon should not have 'breaks'. It can be a uniform mixture of metals of which a minor part may be silver. Sometimes you see them poorly mixed but often they are just grainy and gray. Breaks come when billon degenerated to a point where it was no longer gray so some mints added plating that can break and reveal darker metals below. I might define billon as very base silver too coarse to feel right calling it silver.[/QUOTE]
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