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1 Zecchino - Marco Foscarini
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1762-1763 |
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| Value | 1 Zecchino (20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts Saint Mark standing in full figure at left, nimbed and robed in flowing drapery, holding a long patriarchal staff or gonfalon in his right hand. To his right stands the kneeling figure of the Doge Marco Foscarini in ducal robes and corno ducale, receiving the staff in a gesture of investiture. Between the two figures, the abbreviated title DVX appears in the field. The surrounding legend reads M·FOSCARENVS S·M·VENET·, separated by decorative stops, within a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Marco Foscarini served as Doge for less than two years, dying in office in May 1763 — one of the shorter dogate of the 18th century. Zecchini struck under his name are accordingly scarcer than those of longer-reigning doges, though the type itself was essentially unchanged from the centuries-old Venetian ducat tradition that had made the coin a trusted medium of international trade from the Levant to the North Sea.
By the 1760s the zecchino's role in Mediterranean commerce was already eroding under pressure from Spanish and Dutch coinage. Foscarini's brief tenure left almost no time to accumulate significant mintage.