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1 Zecchino - Michele Steno
| Issuer | Zecca di Venezia |
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| Year | 1400-1413 |
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| Currency | Lira (1156-1471) |
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| Obverse description | Standing figure of Saint Mark the Evangelist at left, nimbed and robed, presenting a gonfalon (banner) to the kneeling Doge Michele Steno at right, who is shown in ducal robes receiving the standard in a gesture of investiture. The composition is rendered in the characteristic flat, hieratic Byzantine-influenced style of the Venetian ducat series. The Latin legend surrounding the figures identifies the Doge by name and title, reading across the field in three lines. The coin exhibits the irregularly shaped flan and strong relief typical of hammered gold coinage of the early fifteenth century. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Christ in Majesty (Christus Pantocrator), nimbed with a cruciform halo, standing within an oval beaded mandorla adorned with six-pointed stars arranged symmetrically around the border. Christ is depicted in flowing robes, raising his right hand in benediction and holding the Gospels in his left hand. The surrounding Latin legend, a devotional invocation characteristic of the Venetian ducat series, encircles the entire design within the outer beaded border. The overall composition follows the established iconographic tradition of the Venetian zecchino, virtually unchanged since the coinage of Giovanni Dandolo in the late thirteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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