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1/4 Zecchino - Carlo Ruzzini
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1732-1735 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carlo Ruzzini's dogeship lasted only three years, cut short by his death in January 1735 at age eighty-four. The fractional zecchino denominations saw limited production under any doge, but the brevity of Ruzzini's reign combined with Venice's already-declining mint output in the early eighteenth century makes pieces attributable to his tenure genuinely scarce. By this period the Venetian gold zecchino — once the dominant trade coin of the Mediterranean — had largely ceded that role to competing issues, though Venice continued striking them more from institutional inertia than commercial necessity.