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6 Bagattini
| Issuer | Venice, Republic of |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Weight | 2.81 g |
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| Obverse description | Half-length frontal effigy of the Madonna depicted with a nimbus, holding the Christ Child to her right. The initials R.C. and L.A. arc symmetrically across the upper field. The numeral '6', denoting the face value, appears in the exergue below the figure. The design is rendered in the Byzantine-influenced Venetian style typical of late 17th-century copper coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | *R*C***L*A* *6* |
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The bagattino was Venice's workhorse small change, and by the late seventeenth century the denomination had been debased and restruck so many times that the Senate periodically ordered mass recalls to prevent counterfeits — themselves often indistinguishable from official issues — from overwhelming the market. The 6 bagattini piece occupied an awkward middle position in Venetian copper coinage, worth just enough to matter in daily market transactions but too low to attract careful handling.
KM#367 is attributed to the dogeship of Alvise Contarini, whose term ran from 1676 to 1684.