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BEZANT

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 840 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BEZANT or BYZANT (from Byzantium, the
modern
 
Constantinople
 ), originally a
Byzantine
  gold coin which had a wide circulation throughout Europe up to about 1250. Its
average
  value was about nine shillings. Bezants were also issued in
Flanders
  and Spain. Silver bezants, in value from one to two shillings, were in circulation in
England
  in the 13th and 14th centuries. In Wycliffe's
translation
  of the Bible he uses the word for a " talent " (e.g. in
Luke
  xv. 8). In heraldry, bezants are represented by gold circles on the shield, and were introduced by the crusaders.
BEZANT$E, in
architecture
 , a name given to an ornamented moulding much used in the Norman period, resembling the coins (bezants) struck in Byzantium.


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