What is the silver medal made of? Is the silver medal made of sterling silver?

The silver medal is made of 550 grams of sterling silver, which is about 3,000 yuan according to the current silver price.

Common medal materials: alloys made of aluminum, iron, zinc.

It is made of copper, gold, silver and other materials, and it is also made of stone, wood, resin, organic, and even several combinations. Typical example: Beijing 08 Olympic Games.

Medals. The silver medal is awarded to the runner-up in a sports or other event. The gold and silver medals won in the actual competition are not pure gold and sterling silver, while silver medals are mainly made of 70% silver, and 30% recycled materials, because of the cost problem, and making medals with pure gold and sterling silver will cause unnecessary waste.

The competition is not meant to embody the spirit of competition, and if the reward is made into real gold**, it is against the spirit of the competition, and the medal is just a souvenir and a medal of honor after the victory.

It is not necessary to make sterling silver, but is in the Tokyo Olympics which I held at the Beijing Olympics and the present.

The silver medal is indeed sterling silver.

The difference between different material medals

1. Medals made of crystal material: you can make a big fuss about the modeling, and you can make a special shape, which is refined and elegant, and it is also very easy to achieve processing and production when the enterprise is customized.

2. Medals made of metal material: its modeling design and production process is difficult, and the unit price is high if it is produced in small quantities.

3. Gold and silver foil medals: it is relatively cheap, and the shipment is fast, if you are in a hurry, you can consider it, but the style is not new enough.

4. Medals made of gold and silver asil: the workmanship is a little finer, and it is slightly more expensive, but the construction period is a little longer.

5. Acrylic.

Material medals: its highlight is that the style is relatively novel.

Generally, the medals issued in large-scale competitions are pure bronze medals, silver medals are pure silver, and gold medals are silver-gilded. Marathon medals, usually made of zinc alloy, will be plated, gold, silver or bronze or other.

Silver medals are not made of sterling silver. Silver medals are not sterling silver, silver can be divided into many kinds, but for the sake of beauty, other metals will be added to the production of silver medals, and after adding other elements, it will make it brighter and more beautiful. Generally, the silver jewelry we buy, generally 999 silver is called sterling silver, but there are few sterling silver, because the hardness of sterling silver is too strong, and it is often inconvenient to make a variety of styles.

Materials for different types of Olympic medalsThe silver medal is made of sterling silver, the bronze medal is made of bronze (95% copper, 5% tin), and the gold medal is made of silver as a base and coated with a layer of gold on the surface of the base, which weighs 6 grams. Differences in medal construction also lead to different processes for silver, bronze, and gold medals. The silver and bronze medals can be shipped as finished products as long as they are slightly heat treated and surface polished after the cold pressing process.

The gold medal is special and requires another plating process on the substrate. It can be understood that it is necessary to gild the "silver medal".