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1 Osella - Silvestro Valier
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1699 |
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| Diameter | 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | St. Mark seated at left, robed, extending a staff bearing a cross and pennant toward the kneeling Doge Silvestro Valier at right; the scene is rendered in the Venetian ceremonial tradition with the date AN. VI (sixth year of the dogeship) inscribed in the exergue. The surrounding legend identifies the issuer and the doge in abbreviated Latin. The composition follows the standard osella iconographic formula of the investiture scene between patron saint and ruling doge. |
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| Obverse lettering | S··M·V·SILVES·VALERIO·D· *AN.VI* |
| Reverse description | A dove in flight, an olive branch in its beak, soaring rightward above a hilly landscape with clouds massed at the upper left; the image alludes to divine favour for Venice and peace after the War of the Holy League. The reverse legend, drawn from Lucan's Pharsalia, proclaims that the victorious cause was pleasing to God, a direct reference to the Peace of Karlowitz (1699) and the Venetian recovery of the Morea. The field is otherwise unadorned, focusing attention on the symbolic avian motif. |
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