A bezant was a gold coin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

I have that worn and oily-looking bezant to this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

He went to market to buy sheep, and had two for a bezant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

One bezant and I was given the location of the Markezinis estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

So I pressed a fine gold bezant of the early eleventh century into his palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

I caught one: a thin, shabby bezant of Alexius I, nicked and filed at the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Cadoc laughed, clapped Rufus on the back, and slipped a bezant into his single palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

He pulled a bezant of Alexius I from his pouch, and let me inspect it for kosherness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

If I had even half a bezant for every newcomer who's dropped o 'the heat stroke, then I'd be a rich man.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

A golden bezant flickered into my hand and fluttered swiftly across to the waiting palm of the major-domo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Cadoc slipped the doorman a golden bezant-a little extravagant, perhaps, but impressiveness might help his chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Sabin presented her with a gold bezant as a symbol of his intention to provide for her, and a wedding ring of African gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

It gave us the Creeds, the bezant and the fork, it introduced us to both silk and caviar, which was once a poor people's food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

Two new ones are the hex and pentagon, while the circle (once called a roundel, bezant, plate, torteau, hurt, etc., depending on its color) is simply called a circle with the correct color named.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference

Jerusalem, unable to pay the golden bezant that was to facilitate their entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2] Reference

There were moneys of various nations, even to the Spanish pistole and Turkish bezant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

We are paid in the coin of the white man's trade -- the bezant is hard, ay, and black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

After they had used up everything they could find, a mere piece of bread cost a bezant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deeds of God Through the Franks] Reference

Does anyone have any companies with a potential to rise that I can look into. max i wanted to say bezant resources but they gone up to 30\% today already!!!.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"If the hawks are well reclaimed," said Raoul, "I will give you a bezant and a half; but I will see them strike a heron ere I will be so rash as to deal with you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

They were plundered, and beaten with stripes, and kept in suspense for months at the gates of Jerusalem, unable to pay the golden bezant that was to procure them admission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

Fatemite caliphs, -- who, although in other respects as tolerant, were more distressed for money, or more unscrupulous in obtaining it, than their predecessors of the house of Abbas, -- imposed a tax of a bezant for each pilgrim that entered Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2] Reference

The race of Fatemite caliphs, -- who, although in other respects as tolerant, were more distressed for money, or more unscrupulous in obtaining it, than their predecessors of the house of Abbas, -- imposed a tax of a bezant for each pilgrim that entered Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

"The lands I will take and devote the sum of them as you desire -- yes, to the last bezant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brethren] Reference

While the loathsome pig is away, I don't mind earning a bezant or two from a handsome stranger. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

A bezant was worth twenty-four silver pennies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Will a bezant be a conformable price for the cast? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

"Why doesn't a man who bears party per bend gules and or, a bezant and crab counterchanged," cried Rastignac, "display that ancient escutcheon of Picardy on the panels of a carriage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan] Reference

I dropped another bezant into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

"A bezant, Master Falconer!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

"Look," she said, "here is a bezant.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

"Not a bezant of which I have the bequeathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

Depending on the tincture, a disk is a bezant, plate, torteau, hurt, gulp, guze, ogress, pellet, gunstone, or fountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4] Reference

At the taking up of the table he distributed amongst them his whole cupboard of plate, which weighed eight hundred thousand and fourteen bezants (Each bezant is worth five pounds English money.) of gold, in great antique vessels, huge pots, large basins, big tasses, cups, goblets, candlesticks, comfit-boxes, and other such plate, all of pure massy gold, besides the precious stones, enamelling, and workmanship, which by all men's estimation was more worth than the matter of the gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

At the taking up of the table he distributed amongst them his whole cupboard of plate, which weighed eight hundred thousand and fourteen bezants (Each bezant is worth five pounds English money.) of gold, in great antique vessels, huge pots, large basins, big tasses, cups, goblets, candlesticks, comfit-boxes, and other such plate, all of pure massy gold, besides the precious stones, enamelling, and workmanship, which by all men’s estimation was more worth than the matter of the gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference