Bezant

1. n. A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
2. n. A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants.
3. n. A circle in or, i. e., gold, representing the gold coin called bezant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.