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Denier anonymous with temple
| Issuer | Venice, Republic of |
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| Year | 823-840 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The anonymous deniers of early Venice occupy an awkward transitional moment: the lagoon city technically remained under Byzantine suzerainty while simultaneously minting coinage that drew formal and iconographic inspiration from Carolingian prototypes — a diplomatic balancing act that the coins themselves embody without resolving. The 823–840 bracket places this issue squarely under Doge Giovanni I Participazio, whose reign saw Venice begin asserting the kind of commercial independence that would define the republic for centuries.
The multiple reference numbers reflect genuine scholarly disagreement over die attribution and sequencing within this anonymous series, with Papadopoli and Paolucci working from overlapping but non-identical die studies.