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Cosa (chi) è Bezant - definizione

GENERIC MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPEAN NAME FOR EASTERN GOLD COINS
Bezants; Medieval European bezant; Byzant; Saracen bezant; Saracen bezants
  • Denier]] in European style with [[Holy Sepulchre]] (1162–75); [[Kufic]] gold bezant (1140–1180); gold bezant with Christian symbol (1250s) ([[British Museum]]). Gold coins were first copied dinars and bore Kufic script, but after 1250 [[Christian symbols]] were added following Papal complaints.
  • gros]] (1275–1287). [[British Museum]].

bezant         
['b?z(?)nt]
¦ noun
1. historical a gold or silver coin originally minted at Byzantium.
2. Heraldry a roundel or (i.e. a solid gold circle).
Origin
ME: from OFr. besant, from L. Byzantius 'Byzantine'.
Bezant         
·noun A circle in or, ·i.e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.
II. Bezant ·noun A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
III. Bezant ·noun A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
Bezant         
In the Middle Ages, the term bezant (Old French besant, from Latin bizantius aureus) was used in Western Europe to describe several gold coins of the east, all derived ultimately from the Roman solidus. The word itself comes from the Greek Byzantion, ancient name of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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Bezant

In the Middle Ages, the term bezant (Old French besant, from Latin bizantius aureus) was used in Western Europe to describe several gold coins of the east, all derived ultimately from the Roman solidus. The word itself comes from the Greek Byzantion, the ancient name of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

The original "bezants" were the gold coins produced by the government of the Byzantine Empire, first the nomisma and from the 11th century the hyperpyron. Later, the term was used to cover the gold dinars produced by Islamic governments. In turn, the gold coins minted in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and County of Tripoli were termed "Saracen bezants", since they were modelled on the gold dinar. A completely different electrum coin based on Byzantine trachea was minted in the Kingdom of Cyprus and called the "white bezant".

The term "bezant" in reference to coins is common in sources from the 10th through 13th centuries. Thereafter, it was mainly employed as a money of account and in literary and heraldic contexts.