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1 Zecchino - Bartolomeo Gradenigo
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1339-1342 |
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| Currency | Lira (1156-1471) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bartolomeo Gradenigo's dogeship lasted just three years before his death in 1342, making his zecchino issues among the shorter-reign Venetian gold strikes of the 14th century. The zecchino — later internationally corrupted to "sequin" — had by this point been minted to essentially identical specifications for nearly eighty years, a deliberate policy that made Venetian gold the preferred trading currency across the Levant and into Central Asia.
The near-.998 fineness was not idealism; it was commercial strategy enforced by the mint masters of the Zecca with unusual rigor.