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1 Carzia - Marcantonio Trevisan
| Issuer | Venetian Administration of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1553-1554 |
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| Currency | Bisante (1489-1570) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Marcantonio Trevisan served as Doge of Venice for less than a year — elected in June 1553, dead by May 1554 — which compresses the entire production window of this issue into a single, abbreviated reign. Cyprus had been under Venetian control since 1489, and the carzia was the colony's workhorse denomination, struck in billon to stretch silver supplies across a cash-hungry island economy. The brevity of Trevisan's dogeship makes any coin bearing his authority inherently short-dated by design, not accident.