Although the ducat issues were private, ducats were subject to state-controlled hallmarking, which, arguably, elevated them to official or at least semi-official status.
In this way, neither new science nor appeals to non-science are invoked to justify the impressive hierarchy hallmarking the scenario of cosmic evolution.
Subsection (5) allows the coating of an article after hallmarking, but only to a properly small thickness of two micrometers.
Hallmarking is not a barrier to trade; it is a barrier to production of inferior quality, which is quite a different proposition.
Hallmarking is independent testing of precious metals to decide the metal fineness.
I was fascinated that in his advocacy of the hallmarking of gold and silver he should enter into the realm of baked beans.
We are concerned with distinguishing the basis of the quality control or hallmarking.
Our hallmarking law—which is mostly of the 14th and 15th centuries, is quite incapable of being understood.
