Definitions for billon

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billon bil·lon

Spelling: [bil-uh n]

IPA: /ˈbɪl ən/

Billon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in billon (billno).

Definitions for billon

noun

1. an alloy used in coinage, consisting of gold or silver with a larger amount of base metal.
2. an alloy of silver with copper or the like, used for coins of small denomination.
3. any coin struck from such an alloy.

Origin of billon

1720-30; French: debased metal, orig. ingot, equivalent to Middle French bille log (see billet²) + -on noun suffix

Examples for billon

The particular coins so designated, were billon or copper, and are described in Lindsay's "Coinage of Scotland," p. 183.

The same result could be got by taking the billon money of Florence and calculating from its silver contents.

The gold coins do not so signally fail; it is in the inferior metals, especially the billon and copper, that the difficulty lies.

In this rsum the mention of billon money has been generally avoided, as unduly complicating the subject.