Talk: Sterling silver - Wikipedia. Units Missing. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 9. I'm assuming that it's 9. Seattle Rex (talk) 0. February 2. 01. 7 (UTC)Weighted Sterling. Needs some discussion. I don't see weighted sterling as much of a topic in and of itself. Other option could be to merge weighted sterling into an article about metal plating and/or false precious metals. Lexprod (talk) 1. December 2. 01. 1 (UTC). The parent article, Plated ware, is also an orphan and it might be useful to merge those two. There is also Sheffield plate, the patterns of which were made to mimic sterling ware, but that article is better developed than the other two. I'm going to have to admit ignorance about methods used before electroplating, which I assume was how weighted sterling was made, but it seems that those methods are in need of some larger article (metal leaf could even be bundled in as well, another orphan.) I'm going to paste this discussion on plated ware's discussion page as it seems more relevant there than here now. Lexprod (talk) 0. December 2. 01. 1 (UTC)Sterling definition dispute. I did do some research though in the hopes we could get this article out of dispute: ( http: //www. They came from the eastern part of Germany and in trading with the English offered 'tokens' (pieces of metal corresponding to coins) in exchange for goods. These tokens were made of a silver alloy which was noted for its purity and the uniform high standard of 9. English for use in commerce.( http: //www. Coinage was originally transacted in weights. Often a mixture of coins did not weigh exactly a pound or half a pound, in fact they often had to split a coin to make the mixture of coins weigh exactly what was required.
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To make the splitting of a coin easier, certain coins were stamped with a smiley face. This enabled a coin to be split easily in half or quarters. This cross was likened to a star, the coins where soon nicknamed 'starlings', this word eventually evolved to what we now know as STERLING.
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