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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F. Cf.

a stick.]

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

See also: billón

billon ‎(plural billons)

Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that is used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

From Old French bille ‎(“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos ‎(“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- ‎(“leaf”).

billon m ‎(plural billons)