Venice (1368-82) soldino

Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 36210

This specimen was lot 36210 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $144. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ITALY. Venice. Soldino, ND (1368-82). Andrea Contarini. PCGS MS-63." The later soldo was 1/20 of a lira. This tiny coin was about the size of an English silver half penny. Wikipedia comments, "[The grosso]'s value was allowed to float relative to other Venetian coins until it was pegged to 4 soldini in 1332, incidentally the year the soldino was introduced. In 1332, 1 grosso was the equivalent of 4 soldini, or 48 denarii."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, 0.40-.049 g.

Catalog reference: cf. CNI-11; Biaggi-2846.

Source:

• Rafaele Paolucci, La Zecca di Venezia, 2 vols. Padua, 1991.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

Link to:

• Venice (1356-61) soldino Giovanni Dolfin
• Venice (1368-82) zecchino Fr.1227
• Venice (1382-1400) soldino, Antonio Venier
• Coins and currency dated 1368