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Examples of bezant
bezant
Bezant Resources Plc is registered in England and Wales with company number 2918391.
From the hemscott.com
In the Anglophone heraldries differently coloured roundels have different names, e.g. a roundel or is called a bezant and a roundel azure is called a hurt.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages
- Bezant is a medieval term for a gold coin. Medievally originally it meant the gold coins produced by the government of the Byzantine Empire. The word was derived from the Greek Byzantium. Later in the medieval era among the Latins the scope of the word was expanded to gold coins produced by Arabic governments.
- A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe; The heraldic representation of a gold coin
- A gold roundel representing a coin but usually shown plain and unstamped.
- (Be'-zant) A gold roundlet, representing a coin of that name. It is supposed to have been introduced into English heraldry by the Crusaders, who had received the gold coin while in the East. [See also ROUNDEL.] [For Cross Bezant, see under cross.]
- A round gold dot. Bezant is the special term for a roundel colored gold or yellow (or).
- [Heraldic] small dot
