1 Carzia - Marcantonio Trevisan

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.