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1 Carzia - Marcantonio Trevisan
| Issuer | Venetian Administration of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1553-1554 |
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| Reference(s) | Tziambazis#1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a rampant lion to the left, representing the Lion of Saint Mark, the heraldic emblem of the Venetian Republic, rendered in a bold if somewhat crude hammered style. The lion stands within a beaded or plain inner circle, its mane and raised forepaw clearly delineated. The surrounding circumscribed legend reads ✠ S • MARCVS • VENETVS, identifying Saint Mark of Venice as the patron, in Latin script. The composition is consistent with Venetian coinage issued for circulation in Cyprus during the mid-sixteenth century. |
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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.