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1 Grosso - Tomaso Mocenigo stars
| Issuer | Venice, Republic of |
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| Year | 1414-1423 |
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| Value | 1 Grosso = 4 Soldini (1/5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | . ✠ • TIBI • LAVS • 7 • GLORIA • |
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Tomaso Mocenigo's dogeship coincided with Venice at perhaps its peak of commercial dominance in the eastern Mediterranean, a moment before the Ottoman pressure that would slowly erode Venetian trade privileges over the following decades. The grosso — by this period already a denomination with nearly two centuries of continuous production behind it — had become the workhorse of Levantine trade, recognized and accepted from Alexandria to Trebizond without need of assay.
The star privy marks distinguish this emission within the CNI sequence and likely indicate a specific mint official's tenure rather than a chronological subdivision of the reign.