1 Soldo - Giovanni Corner I

Giovanni Corner I served as Doge from 1625 to 1629, a tenure dominated by Venice's grinding involvement in the War of the Mantuan Succession — a conflict that strained the treasury severely enough that billon coinage of this period often shows irregular planchet quality as the mint worked with debased metal supplies. Corner died in office in 1629, the same year plague swept Venice and killed roughly a third of the city's population, collapsing both commerce and the demand for small-denomination coinage almost overnight.