6 Bagattini `Bezzo Legge 22⁄01⁄1604`

The Venetian bagattino was the lowest-denomination struck copper coin in regular circulation, and by 1604 the Republic had spent decades struggling to control the flood of underweight and counterfeit pieces that plagued the sestieri. The legge of 22 January 1604 was a direct legislative response — a formal decree establishing new weight and fineness standards for small copper coinage, which is why this type carries the date of that law rather than a regnal or dogal reference.

Paolucci 730 is among the better-documented of the early seicento copper issues, though die workmanship at this denomination was never closely supervised.