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1 Quattrino - Pietro Lando
| Issuer | Venice, Republic of |
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| Year | 1539-1545 |
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| Value | 1 Quattrino (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the Doge Pietro Lando is depicted kneeling to the left in ceremonial robes, holding an upright staff surmounted by a pennant. The figure is rendered in the late medieval Venetian style typical of hammered billon coinage. The Latin legend surrounds the central device in the outer field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pietro Lando served as Doge from 1539 to 1545, a tenure overshadowed by the ongoing Ottoman pressure following Suleiman the Magnificent's campaigns through Hungary and the eastern Mediterranean. Venice was threading a delicate diplomatic line — maintaining trade privileges in Levantine ports while nominally supporting Christian coalition efforts — and the republic's small billon fractional coinage kept commerce moving through a city whose economy depended almost entirely on that precarious balance.