Definizione

• A billon coin of the value of one-third of a Para formerly cur- rent in Turkey and Asia Minor. It weighs from two to three grains.

  The name appears to be derived from the (Greek words), of the modern Greeks, being " white " money, as distinguished from the copper.

  In the Tunis currency the Asper is divi- ded into twelve Bourbes.

  The name is also given to a silver coin current in Rhodes in the fourteenth cen- tury and later. It was issued by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and is the same as the Denier of Western Europe. There is a series of them struck at Tre- bizond, under the Commenes, from Manuel I (1238-1263) to Alexis IV (1417-1447), and they were copied in Georgia under Georgi VIII (1452-1469).

  In 1492 it was computed in Venice at 20 Tornesi, and in 1677 it was coined in the Republic of Genoa for the Levantine trade.

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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