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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8555104" data-attributes="member: 6779310">It's well documented in Byzantium in the 6th to 9th C CE. Bezanted is a form of studded - using coins or coin-shaped blanks. It's not common in Europe, but not unknown. Directly comparable is ring on leather and ring on quilt.You almost never would wear any metallic armors without a gambeson or jack. That's not "combination" armor, that's just an essential part of the harness.Unless you like crescent shaped bruises and/or cuts. (Seen enough of them. None my own.)Same is true for gloves and articulated gauntlets - the leather protects from the edges of the metal armor; it's not an increase in the armor's protection, it's protection from the protection.</blockquote>