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2 Soldi

Emittent Ionian Islands, Venetian rule in the (1363-1797)
Jahr 1710-1797
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Aversbeschreibung Facing Lion of Saint Mark depicted in a stylized, frontal posture, holding an open book in its forepaws, rendered in low relief on a plain field. A six-pointed rosette or star ornament appears to the left of the lion. The Latin legend SANCT. MARCVS. VEN curves around the upper periphery of the coin. The Roman numeral value II appears prominently in the exergue, separated from the main field by a horizontal line.
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Reversschrift Latin
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The Ionian Islands operated under a distinct Venetian administrative structure — the Provveditori system — that granted them considerable local autonomy, including the right to issue their own copper coinage for small transactions. This 2 Soldi type served the everyday commerce of islands like Corfu, Cephalonia, and Zante across nearly a century of continuous issue, an unusually long run that accounts for the considerable variation in die quality seen across surviving examples.

Venice's grip on the Ionians ended not through Ottoman conquest, as had long been feared, but by French decree following Bonaparte's dissolution of the Republic in 1797.