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1 Ducato - Alvise Mocenigo IV
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1763-1778 |
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| Composition | Silver (.8264) |
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| Obverse description | St. Mark seated at left, presenting a staff surmounted by a cross and pennant to the Doge Alvise Mocenigo IV, who kneels in supplication at right. The composition reflects the traditional Venetian iconographic formula affirming ducal authority through apostolic investiture. The mintmaster's initials appear in the exergue below the figures. The encircling legend identifies the issuing authority and the doge by name. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alvise Mocenigo IV held the dogeship during one of Venice's most politically fraught periods — the Republic was losing ground to Austrian influence in the Adriatic and watching its mainland territories contract. The ducato issued under his reign reflects a mint still committed to fineness standards it had maintained for centuries, even as the commercial weight of Venetian silver was being undercut by Spanish milled coinage flooding Mediterranean trade routes.
Mocenigo IV died in office in 1778, and the series ends there abruptly.