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Today, the word sterling means of high or standard quality. When applied to silver, it means an alloy, or mixture of metals, containing at least 92.5 percent silver. No one is sure of where this word came from. According to one story, a group of German merchants who came to England around the year 1300 were dubbed “Easterlings”
