Article: Why We Call Silver Jewellery 'Sterling' Silver
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Why We Call Silver Jewellery 'Sterling' Silver
We receive several enquiries each month, generally from existing customers, asking about the origins of the word 'sterling'.
I suppose most of these people have had a quick look over our small library of interesting silver jewellery facts but missed our brief article on the topic.
To discover the origins of the word we must go back hundreds of year in time to medieval England and the modern-day United Kingdom territories.
A form of currency was necessary for the ever-increasing levels of trade. Easterlings were one of these currencies, and were quite simply silver coins smelted and marked with their value based purely on their silver weight.
Sterling or sterlings was the abbreviation for this commonly used tender - and to this day...
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