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1 Ducato - Francesco Loredan
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1752-1754 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Venice Mint (Zecca di Venezia) |
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Francesco Loredan served as Doge from 1752 to 1762, but the ducato bearing his name was struck only in the first two years of his reign before production effectively ceased — a consequence of Venice's deepening fiscal exhaustion and the growing irrelevance of large silver coinage in a republic that had long since lost its commercial dominance in the eastern Mediterranean. By the mid-eighteenth century, the Serenissima was minting more for institutional tradition than economic necessity.
KM#611 is among the scarcer ducato issues of the final Dogate period, with surviving examples frequently showing the softness typical of late Venetian silver striking, where die preparation had become inconsistent across the Zecca's diminished workforce.