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1/2 Soldo
| Issuer | Venice, Republic of |
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| Year | 1619 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#77 |
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| Reverse lettering | SAN * MARC * VEN * |
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| Mintage | 1619: ND (1619) |
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The half soldo copper issues of the early seventeenth century Venetian Republic served the lowest tier of daily commerce in a city whose trade networks still stretched across the eastern Mediterranean, despite mounting Ottoman pressure on its colonial holdings. By 1619, Venice was barely a decade removed from the War of the Uskok, a grinding Adriatic conflict that had strained the treasury and disrupted Adriatic shipping lanes.
KM#77 is associated with the dogeship of Giovanni Bembo, elected 1615. Copper small change from this period circulated hard and was rarely preserved — decent survivors are genuinely scarce.