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Numismatic terminology: ‘Guilding’?

I keep encountering this word very frequentlty, I know that the noun ‘guild’ is a a club, society, or other organization of people with common interests or goals, and the verb ‘gild’ is the covering of something with gold, but what exactly does it mean when it says for instance ‘slight remains of guilding’?

The term guilding (gilding) is not used here in the states not as a numismatic term. In fact the spell checker says the spelling is wrong, I put the correct spelling beside it. I have been a numismatist for a long time and have actually never come across the word in an advertisement. Regarding coins, I would take it as a thin cover, or what we call “wash” of a precious metal, as gold or silver over a core of copper or bronze.The ancients are famous for this as well as some modern companies trying to pull a fast one, on their medals or tokens by have a .001of an inch of gold or silver over copper/nickel or steel. It must mean some of the coating still exists.

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