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1 Soldino, 4 Tornesi
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1610 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse lettering | SOL DINO * * |
| Edge | Plain |
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The soldino had been Venice's workhorse small change for centuries before this copper issue, but by the early seventeenth century the Republic was struggling to maintain a credible fiduciary coinage against chronic shortages and widespread counterfeiting of petty denominations. The equation of 1 soldino to 4 tornesi was a formal valuation peg rather than a new denomination — an administrative attempt to rationalize the relationship between Venetian and mainland south Italian monetary units circulating simultaneously in Adriatic trade.