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County of Tripoli gold bezant in Arabic (1270–1300), and Tripoli silver gros (1275–1287). 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.
Besante[ 1] é um termo medieval dado pela Europa Ocidental ao nomisma de ouro bizantina. O termo deriva do nome grego Βυζάντιον (Byzántion), a cidade que tornou-se capital imperial no século IV. O termo aparece principalmente em documentos dos séculos X e XIII. Subsequentemente o termo foi empregado em contexto literário e heráldico. [ 2]
Conteúdo. ocultar. Início. Referências. Bezante. Os bezantes eram uma característica de certos elmos de torneios ou batalha; chamava-se bezante, durante a Idade Média, alguns orifícios arredondados que eram abertos na parte dianteira ou lateral do elmo, no processo de forja.
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Early Byzantine coins continue the late Greco-Roman conventions: on the obverse the head of the Emperor, now full face rather than in profile,[note 1] and on the reverse, usually a Christian symbol such as the cross, or a Victory or an angel (the two tending to merge into one another). The gold coins of Justinian II departed from these stable conve...
The start of what is viewed as Byzantine currency by numismatics began with the monetary reform of Anastasius in 498, who reformed the late Roman Empire coinage system which consisted of the gold solidus and the bronze nummi. The nummus was an extremely small bronze coin, at about 8–10 mm, weight of 0.56 g making it at 576 to the Roman poundwhich w...
Former money changer Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1034–41) assumed the throne of Byzantium in 1034 and began the slow process of debasing both the tetarteron nomisma and the histamenon nomisma. The debasement was gradual at first, but then accelerated rapidly. about 21 carats (87.5% pure) during the reign of Constantine IX (1042–1055), 18 carats (7...
During Andronicus II's reign he instituted new denominations based on the hyperpyron. They were the silver miliaresion or basilika at 12 to the hyperpyron and the billon politika at 96 per hyperpyron,along with the copper assaria, tournesia and follara.The basilikon was a copy of the Venetian ducatand circulated from 1304 for fifty years. The hyper...
During this last phase of Byzantine coinage gold issues were discontinued and a regular silver issue was commenced. The denomination was the Stavraton issued in 1, 1⁄2, 1⁄8 and 1⁄16 stavraton.Also issued were the copper follaro and tornesse.
It is possible to get some small snapshots in time, specific to region, culture and local inflation. The literary world is littered with references to prices from different time frames. A good portion of them may be inaccurate or tainted by translation. At Jerusalem in the sixth century a building worker received 1⁄20 solidus per day, that is 21 fo...
Grierson, Philip (1982), Byzantine coins, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-416-71360-2Grierson, Philip (1999), Byzantine coinage (PDF), Dumbarton Oaks, ISBN 978-0-88402-274-9Hendy, Michael F. (1985), Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c.300–1450, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-24715-2Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6Digital Library Numis (DLN) Archived 5 July 2018 at the Wayback MachineOnline books and articles on Byzantine coinsTalking about Ancient and Byzantine Coins: Interview with Yannis Stoyas Archived 6 December 2017 at the Wayback MachineAn informative October 2015 interview on the Byzantine coinage with a leading...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]
Thus, while a gold roundel may be blazoned by its tincture, e.g., a roundel or, it is more often described as a bezant, from the Old French term besant for a gold coin, which itself is named for the Byzantine Empire. The terms and their origin can be seen in the following table:
23 de nov. de 2017 · The Arab caliphate, getting over its initial dislike of the coin, was one notable user of the nomisma, where it was known as the bezant. Usually preferring it to minting their own gold coinage, they did sometimes produce their own coins which imitated, right down to the legends, those of Byzantium.
