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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 840 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEZANT or BYZANT (from See also:

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

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