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hyperpyron

The English word “hyperpyron” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A Byzantine coin in use during the late Middle Ages, replacing the solidus as the Byzantine Empire’s gold coinage.

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ὑπέρπυρον (hupérpuron). Doublet of perper and perpera.

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