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n. (alternative form of asper English)
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The aspron , from Latin asper, was a late Byzantine name for silver or silver-alloy coins.
The Latin word asper originally meant "rough", but had gradually acquired the connotation of "fresh" and, especially when referring to silver, "white", by the imperial period. It acquired a technical meaning in the 12th century, when the Byzantines began to refer to the billon trachy coin, which was issued in a blanched state, as aspron. The same name was also sometimes applied to the contemporary electrum trachy as well.
The name re-appears in the 14th–15th centuries as a generic name for silver coinage, such as the Byzantine doukatopoulon or the Turkish akçe. The 15th century account books of the Venetian merchant-banker Giacomo Badoer lists several cities and governments that coined aspers, which included Trebizond, Caffa, Simisso (or Samsun), Tana, and Rhodes.
Usage examples of "aspron".
La lingua del Secolo, che Harlan aveva ritenuto sempre troppo aspra e sgradevole, era stata come una musica, usata dalla ragazza.