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1 Quattrino - Francesco Foscari for Ravenna
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1423-1457 |
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| Weight | 0.62 g |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross with splayed arms occupies the central field, set within a beaded or plain inner circle and dividing the field into four quadrants. Surrounding the inner circle is a circular Latin legend reading the Doge's name and title. The flan is characteristically irregular and the strike uneven, as is typical of mid-fifteenth-century hammered billon coinage struck for Venetian provincial mints. The lettering is rendered in Gothic or semi-Gothic capitals consistent with Venetian practice of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ • FRA • FOSCARI • DVX • |
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Francesco Foscari held the dogeship for 34 years — the longest reign of any Doge in Venetian history — before being forcibly removed in 1457 by the Council of Ten, the only time that body ever deposed a sitting Doge. Venice administered Ravenna from 1441 until 1509, when Julius II reclaimed it for the Papal States as part of the League of Cambrai's dismemberment of Venetian terraferma holdings. This quattrino belongs to that brief window of Venetian civic authority over a city that had already passed through Ostrogothic, Byzantine, and papal hands.