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bezant

NOUN
  1. a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

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  • In the middle of this aisle, on a raised tomb, is a cross-legged mail, and a pointed helmet of the same, his head reclined on a double cushion to the right, his hands elevated; on his shield a bend between six crosses botone, charged with only one bezant.
  • Two new ones are the hex and pentagon, while the circle (once called a roundel, bezant, plate, torteau, hurt, etc., depending on its color) is simply called a circle with the correct color named. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
  • The excellence of Byzantine administration—hardly Byzantine at all by our usage—is nowhere clearer than in the power of the Byzantine standard gold coin, the solidus known as the bezant in medieval Europe. The Glories of Byzantium
  • Al-Kamil sent back a second time, adding 30,000 bezants cash to compensate for the two castles, but again the offer was rejected.
  • A small loaf of bread cost a bezant of gold, and of the price of wine I shall not speak; there was not even a jug of it. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
  • In the center of these arms is a gold (yellow) plate, called a bezant, on which is placed a dove, in his proper color, to honor Saint Fabian, the Bishop's baptismal patron.
  • Cadoc laughed, clapped Rufus on the back, and slipped a bezant into his single palm. The Boat of a Million Years
  • The bezant or gold roundel is one of the three of St. Nicholas, to whom the first church in Norton was dedicated.
  • The Byzantine society functioned very successfully economically for a thousand years using the pure bezant gold coin.
  • The Arms are blazoned as: Gules, a chevron between a griffin's head erased or in base, and two bezants in chief.
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