A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages.
1 Africanus und die byzant .
2 I looked down and saw that he had given me a solid gold byzant , gleaming dull and heavy in my hand.
3 The yellow gleam of gold byzants met his wondering gaze.
4 If it be less than a thousand byzants , let him have jewels to make it up.
5 The others looked on breathlessly as the friar arranged the golden byzants in neat little towers of ten.
6 "Each," replied the priest, handing the byzant back to him.
7 "So how much for a byzant ? " asked Siarles.
8 She was a Champernoun, proudest of Norman squires, and could probably boast of having in her veins the blood of Courtneys, Emperors of Byzant .
9 And old Narses died at Rome, at a great age; and they wrapt him in lead, and sent him to Byzant with all his wealth.
10 His mother was a Champernoun of purest Norman descent, and "could probably boast of having in her veins the blood of Courtneys, Emperors of Byzant . "
11 "I know the armour well; it is that which the Venetian commissary offered your highness, just ere you became ill, for five hundred byzants . "
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