10 Tornesi, 2 1/2 Soldini

The tornese denominations of early seventeenth-century Venice were introduced largely to address a chronic shortage of small copper coinage circulating in the Terraferma — the republic's mainland territories — where Spanish and papal billon had been filling the gap unofficially for decades. The Senate's 1609 monetary reforms authorized new copper struck at the Zecca, ending a long reluctance to issue base metal under the republic's own authority.

Paolucci 878 is among the scarcer of the early tornesi varieties, with surviving examples typically showing heavy flan porosity from the copper stock used in this period.