bezant

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  • Noun:
    a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

Word Origin

bezant (n.)
gold coin, c. 1200, from Old French besant (12c.), from Latin byzantius, short for Byzantius nummus "coin of Byzantium."

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