Venice (1382-1400) soldino

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Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 57410
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This specimen was lot 57410 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Venice. Soldino, ND (1382-1400). Venice Mint. Antonio Veniero. NGC MS-64." 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.

Catalog reference: Paolucci-5, Biaggi-2865.

Source:

  • Rafaele Paolucci, La Zecca di Venezia, 2 vols. Padua, 1991.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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