1 Ducatone - Pietro Grimani

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.