Scyphate
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scyphate-318-16594054
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Scyphate
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Scyphate is a term frequently used in numismatics to refer to the concave or "cup-shaped" Byzantine coins of the 11th–14th centuries. This usage emerged in the premodern era and was solidified by scholars of the 19th century, when the term scyphatus, attested in south Italian documents of the 11th and 12th centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos. In reality, the term probably derives from the Arabic word shafah, "edge, rim", and refers to the distinctive an
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Type of Byzantine coin
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2024-04-27T04:21:25Z
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