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1 Ducato - Marin Faliero
| Issuer | Republic of Venice (Zecca di Venezia) |
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| Year | 1354-1355 |
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| Currency | Lira (1156-1471) |
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| Obverse description | Saint Mark, shown in full-length standing figure facing, presents a pennant-topped staff (vexillum) to the kneeling Doge Marin Faliero at right, who receives it with both hands in a gesture of investiture. The inscription DVX appears vertically between the two figures. The legend surrounds the scene, naming the doge. The style is characteristic of the Venetian medieval hammered gold ducat tradition, with hieratic, frontal rendering of both figures. |
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| Reverse description | A full-length, frontal figure of Christ in Majesty stands within a beaded mandorla (elliptical glory) lined with a row of small six-pointed stars. Christ is depicted in long robes, raising the right hand in benediction and holding the Gospels in the left. The surrounding legend, split across both sides of the coin, reads the well-known Venetian ducat inscription invoking Christ as ruler. The field between the mandorla and the outer legend ring is plain, consistent with standard Venetian ducat reverse design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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