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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bezant \Be*zant"\, n. [See {Byzant}.]
1. 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. [Written also {besant}, {byzant},
etc.]
2. (Her.) A circle in or i. e., gold, representing the gold
coin called bezant. --Burke.
3. A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt,
representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Byzant \Byz"ant\, Byzantine \Byz"an*tine\ (-[a^]n"t[imac]n)
n.[OE. besant, besaunt, F. besant, fr LL Byzantius,
Byzantinus fr Byzantium.] (Numis.)
A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. {See
Bezant}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
byzant
n : a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in
Europe in the Middle Ages [syn: {bezant}, {bezzant}]
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