Swiss Cantons (Lucern) - 1807
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| Size, 24 mm. | |||||||||
| This piece is made of billon, a mixture that usually combines a base metal such as copper with silver. In this example the silver is only 1/6 of the total metal used. Billon pieces were often covered with a wash of silver to make them look like they contained more silver than they did. In some cases, not this one, that wash was the only silver present! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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