1 Scudo - Marino Grimani

Marino Grimani served as Doge from 1595 until his death in 1605, a decade during which Venice was navigating the slow erosion of its eastern trade dominance following the Ottoman consolidation of Levantine ports. The scudo denomination itself was Venice's answer to the large silver thalers flooding in from the Habsburg mints — a deliberate effort to maintain Venetian coinage as an international trading currency rather than a purely domestic one.

Grimani's dogeship coincided with the interdict crisis building toward its 1606 rupture with Rome, and fiscal pressure on the Zecca was considerable throughout.