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Aspron The ''aspron'' ((ギリシア語:ἄσπρον)), 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.〔Cecile Morrison, "Coin Usage and Exchange Rates in Badoer’s ''Libro dei Conti''", ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'', 55 (2001), pp. 217-245〕 ==References==
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