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5 Soldi - Marco Foscarini
| Issuer | Republic of Venice |
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| Year | 1762-1763 |
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| Weight | 1.24 g |
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| Obverse description | The winged Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Venetian Republic, depicted passant to the left with head turned to face the viewer, resting its forepaws upon an open gospel book set on a ground line. The date appears in the exergue below the ground line. The circular legend surrounding the central device reads S·M·V·MARC·FOSCARENVS, identifying the Doge Marco Foscarini under whose authority the coin was struck. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Marco Foscarini's dogate lasted barely eighteen months before his death in 1763, making this among the shortest-reigning issues of the late Venetian Republic. Billon coinage of this period was already politically fraught — Venetian merchants routinely complained that the debased small change drove out better silver through Gresham's Law, a problem the Senate repeatedly acknowledged and consistently failed to solve.
The brevity of the reign constrains surviving quantity more than any minting variable.