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1 Soldo - Alvise Mocenigo IV
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1763-1778 |
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| Weight | 1.908 g |
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| Obverse description | The winged Lion of Saint Mark is depicted at left facing the kneeling Doge at right, who presents his obeisance while holding a ceremonial staff surmounted by a cross and a pennant. The scene is rendered in the characteristic Venetian devotional style, with the numeral '12' inscribed in the exergue denoting the denomination in bagattini. The legend surrounds the composition along the periphery of the coin, separated by a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | S·M·V·ALOY·MOCENI· 12 |
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Alvise Mocenigo IV served as Doge from 1763 until his death in 1778, a tenure that coincided with Venice's increasingly desperate attempts to maintain fiscal stability as the Republic's commercial dominance eroded. The copper soldo by this period was a deeply debased workhorse denomination, its purchasing power a fraction of what earlier Venetian monetary policy had promised. Venice had long resisted debasing its gold and silver issues, but the copper subsidiary coinage absorbed the strain.
The Republic fell to Napoleon in 1797, less than two decades after this issue ceased production — meaning these soldos circulated through the final chapter of a thousand-year state.