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1 Osella - Alvise Mocenigo II
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1706 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | ·S·M·V·ALOYSIVS·MOCENICO·D· B·G |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The osella was Venice's annual New Year's gift coin, distributed by the Doge to members of the Signoria in place of the live wildfowl — oselle — that had been the traditional gift since the early Republic. By Mocenigo II's dogeship, the practice was thoroughly institutionalized, with each year's issue carrying a unique reverse type that makes the series a near-complete visual chronicle of late Seicento and early Settecento Venetian political preoccupations. Gold strikings were reserved for presentation to the highest dignitaries; the standard issue circulated in silver.
1706 fell during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which Venice maintained its characteristic neutrality — a posture increasingly difficult to sustain as Habsburg and Bourbon forces maneuvered across northern Italy.