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12 Bagattini / Soldo - Alvise Pisani
| Issuer | Republic of Venice (Venice, Italian States) |
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| Year | 1735-1741 |
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| Value | 1 Soldo (1⁄20) |
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| Obverse description | To the left, the winged Lion of St. Mark sejant, holding the Gospel; to the right, the Doge kneeling in supplication, grasping a staff surmounted by a cross and pennant. The value '12' appears in the exergue below the two figures. The peripheral legend in Latin encircles the design, identifying the doge and the patron saint of Venice. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Christ standing, robed, holding a closed book in his left hand while his right hand is raised in a gesture of benediction. The figure is rendered in a formal, hieratic style characteristic of Venetian ecclesiastical coinage of the period. A beaded or dotted border frames the design, with the devotional legend divided by ornamental stops in the peripheral field. |
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Alvise Pisani served as Doge from 1735 until his death in 1741, a tenure defined largely by Venice's increasingly precarious neutrality as the War of the Polish Succession and then the War of the Austrian Succession reshaped the surrounding powers. The Republic was minting coins for a state in managed decline — trade revenues contracting, the terraferma under pressure, and the mint producing billon small change for a population that needed it regardless of geopolitics.
The soldo denomination had been a workhorse of Venetian petty commerce for centuries, and billon issues of this period are frequently found in worn condition from genuine use in the Rialto markets.