1 Soldino - Andrea Contarini seated lion

Andrea Contarini's dogeship coincided with the War of Chioggia, Venice's most existential struggle of the fourteenth century — a conflict with Genoa that brought enemy ships into the Venetian lagoon itself by 1379. The republic's finances were under severe strain, and small silver fractions like the soldino were the workhorses of wartime trade and troop payment along the Adriatic.

Papadopoli's cataloguing of this type remains the standard reference for the series, though die linkage across the Contarini issues is poorly documented.