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1 Ducatone - Pietro Grimani
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1741-1742 |
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| Value | 1 Ducatone = 124 Soldi (31⁄5) |
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| Obverse lettering | ·S·M·V·PETRVS·GRIMANI·D F·P |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pietro Grimani served as Doge from 1741 to 1752, but the ducatone bearing his name was struck only in the opening years of his dogeship. By the mid-eighteenth century the Republic of Venice was a state in managed decline — its commercial empire largely lost to Dutch and English competition, its mainland territories squeezed between Habsburg and Bourbon ambitions. The ducatone itself was by then an anachronism, a prestige silver denomination minted more for ceremonial and diplomatic exchange than for any practical commercial function.
Davenport EC III:1545 places this squarely within the late Venetian series, where die quality had grown inconsistent and full planchet strikes are genuinely difficult to find.