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British Museum. 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 .
En la Edad Media, el término bezante o besante (del antiguo francés besant, del latín bizantius aureus) se usó en Europa occidental para describir varias monedas de oro del este, todas derivadas en última instancia del solidus romano.
Con la creación del sólido bizantino, Constantino I inició una reforma monetaria que permitió estabilizar la economía del Imperio Romano que se encontraba en crisis, lo que indudablemente logró, transformándose en la base de la economía del Imperio Bizantino o Imperio Romano de Oriente. El sólido mantuvo un valor constante en Occidente ...
More often in the West the hyperpyron was called the bezant, especially among Italian merchants. In the early Komnenian period, the hyperpyron was the equivalent of three electrum trachea, 48 billon trachea or 864 copper tetartera, although with the debasement of the trachea it eventually came to rate 12 electrum trachea and 288 to ...
The Byzantine solidus was valued in Western Europe, where it became known as the bezant, a corruption of Byzantium. The term bezant then became the name for the heraldic symbol of a roundel, tincture or – i.e. a gold disc. Alexius I reforms Manuel I Comnenus scyphate (cup-shaped) hyperpyron.
Bezantée, bezantie or bezanty is an ornamentation consisting of roundels. The word derives from bezant, a gold coin from the Byzantine Empire, which was in common European use until circa 1250. In architecture, bezantée moulding was much used in the Norman period. [1]
In modern French-language blazonry, a roundel of any metal ( Or or Argent) is a besant [5] (being specified as a "besant d'or" or a "besant d'argent"), and a roundel of any colour is a tourteau [6] (for instance, a blue roundel is a "tourteau d'azur").
