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Saracenatus

Saracenatus [LL Saracenus+-atus], (also Byzant(i)us ~us), Saracen bezant, gold coin minted by Frankish crusaders from the 1130s or 40s onward, which imitated the gold dinar of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Amir, including the Arabic script. 1272 pro singula libra Turonensi tres bisantias [MS: bisant'] auri ~as [MS: sarrac'] et dimidium tenemur et promisimus resortire RL II 348; 1272 si mercatores predicti redeant ad Accon’ absque solucione peccunie memorate pro singula libra Turonensi tres bisant’ et dimidium auri ~os tenentur antedicti magister et conventus pro nobis reddere mercatoribus AncC 1212 (= RL II 351).

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