Catalog
1 Bagattino
| Issuer | Šibenik, City of |
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| Year | 1485-1498 |
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| Value | 1 Bagattino |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of Venetian authority and suzerainty, depicted in profile facing left within the coin's field. The lion is rendered in the conventional heraldic style associated with Venetian-influenced Dalmatian coinage of the late 15th century. A circular Latin legend surrounds the device, reading SANCTVS MARCVS VENETI, affirming the city's political allegiance to the Republic of Venice. |
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Šibenik was one of the few Dalmatian communes to strike its own copper coinage under Venetian suzerainty, a privilege jealously guarded and rarely extended. The bagattino was the smallest unit in the Venetian-aligned monetary system, and Šibenik's issues of this denomination were produced during a narrow window before Venice tightened control over provincial minting across its Adriatic territories in the late fifteenth century.
Dobrinić's reference number places this among the earliest catalogued municipal copper issues from the eastern Adriatic coast.