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hyperper Numism.|haɪˈpɜːpə(r)|
[ad. med.L. hyperperum, -pyrum, ad. Gr. ὑπέρπυρον, f. ὑπέρ hyper- + πῦρ fire: applied to gold highly refined by fire.]
A Byzantine coin; the gold solidus (which at the cession of Crete was rather heavier than a half-sovereign). Cf. Du Cange Dissert. de inf. ævi numismatibus (Rome 1755) 123.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 94 For each carte loade they giue two webbes of cotton amounting to the value of half an yperpera. 1886J. Bury in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 312 By this compact Boniface ceded to Venice Crete and the sum of 100,000 hyperpers. |