1 Bagattino - Francesco Foscari for Brescia

Francesco Foscari's 34-year dogeship — the longest in Venetian history — was defined by relentless territorial expansion on the Italian mainland, the terraferma policy that brought Brescia firmly under Venetian control after 1426. The bagattino was the workhorse of small retail transactions in subject cities, and Brescia received its own localized issues precisely to smooth commerce in a newly absorbed population still accustomed to Visconti-era coinage.

Billon this light loses silver content rapidly in circulation; surviving examples are almost invariably base in surface color.