Bezant
（重定向自Byzant）
![Crusader coins of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: Denier in European style with Holy Sepulchre (1162-75); Kufic gold bezant (1140-80); gold bezant with Christian symbol (1250s). Gold coins were first copied dinars and bore Kufic script, but after 1250 Christian symbols were added following Papal complaints (British Museum).](/Images/godic/202501/02/Crusader_coins_of_the_Kingdom_of_Jerusalem4106.jpg")
![County of Tripoli gold bezant in Arabic (1270-1300), and Tripoli silver gros (1275-1287). British Museum.](/Images/godic/202501/02/Tripoli_gold_bezant_in_Arabic_1270_1300_Tripoli_silver_gros_1275_12874106.jpg")
![Arms of Sir John Russell, a 13th-century English courtier.[3]](/Images/godic/202501/02/RussellofDyrhamArms4106.jpg")
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.