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Beautiful genuine Moonstone Pendant with 9 stones surrounding a Sun image in 925 Sterling Silver (stamped) overlay setting. Measures 2" long by 1.5" wide. Stones are nice and uniform, and they have an almost iridescent quality to them. Brand New!

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Sterling Silver:
Fine silver is 99.9 percent pure or more, but it is very soft and unsuitable for most uses. Sterling silver is defined as 92.5 percent pure or higher. Sometimes, as you note, 95 percent pure silver is sold; this has more silver than the minimum it needs to be called sterling but its still sterling.
The remaining 5 to 7-1/2 percent is usually copper because this has been found to be the best metal to alloy with the silver to not discolor it, while making it hard.

Silver Overlay:
Silver overlay is a process of taking nickel silver and applying a layer of solid sterling silver....it is many times thicker than "Plated". The overlay is then engraved, etc....whereas plated items are engraved and then plated with a very thin electro plate of silver.

The process of using sterling silver overlay is done by the finest silversmith. It has the great appearance of solid sterling at a reduced cost but will far out last plated products. Sterling overlay is much better and more expensive than plated but not as high a solid sterling silver.