Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Besants

or Bezants. Circular pieces of bullion without any impression, supposed to represent the old coinage of Byzantium, and to have been brought to Europe by the Crusaders.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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