Answer: bezants

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BEZANTSByzantine coins
bezantsthe gold solidus of the Byzantine Empire, widely circulated in the Middle Ages
bezantsBEZANT, a coin of ancient Rome, also BEZZANT, BYZANT
bezants(in Romanesque architecture) any of a number of disklike ornaments, similar in form to the classical patera, used esp. on the faces of archivolts