Francesco Foscari held the dogeship longer than any other in Venetian history — 34 years — though his tenure ended not in death but in the extraordinary spectacle of a forced abdication by the Council of Ten in 1457, just weeks before he died. The quattrino was the workhorse of small retail exchange throughout the terraferma and lagoon, and issues spanning his full reign are correspondingly difficult to attribute precisely within it, as the dies were reused without systematic dating.
Francesco Foscari held the dogeship longer than any other in Venetian history — 34 years — though his tenure ended not in death but in the extraordinary spectacle of a forced abdication by the Council of Ten in 1457, just weeks before he died. The quattrino was the workhorse of small retail exchange throughout the terraferma and lagoon, and issues spanning his full reign are correspondingly difficult to attribute precisely within it, as the dies were reused without systematic dating.