Venice (1356-61) soldino
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This specimen was lot 75787 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Venice. Soldino, ND (1356-61). Venice Mint. Giovanni Dolfin. PCGS MS-62." The soldino was introduced early in the fourteenth century under doge Francesco Dandolo at a standard of 0.95 g, 0.670 fine silver. This issue of Giovanni Dolfin is quite a bit lighter and may be debased as well. Twenty soldini made a lira.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.55 g, silver, 15 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Paolucci-2.
- Rafaele Paolucci, La Zecca di Venezia, 2 vols. Padua, 1991.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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