1789-1797 Gold Ducat Zecchino Venice Italy Last Doge Ludovico Manin Coin

1 GOLD DUCAT (ALSO CALLED A ZECCHINO AFTER 1554 AD). OBV: DOGE KNEELING (RIGHT FIELD KNEELING LEFT) RECEIVING A PENNON STANDARD OF AUTHORITY FROM SAINT MARK (NIMBATE, LEFT FIELD STANDING RIGHT). REV: FULL STANDING FACING FIGURE OF CHRIST AS PANTOCRATOR GIVING BENEDICTION WITH RIGHT HAND, GOSPELS IN LEFT ARM, WITHIN A MANDORLA FILLED WITH STARS. DURING HIS REIGN, THE VENETIAN NAVY FELL INTO GREAT DECLINE. ITALY WAS INVADED BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE IN 1795, AND VENICE, ALONG WITH GENOA, TRIED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL.

VENICE WAS GIVEN AN ULTIMATUM BY THE FRENCH IN 1797 AND A SECRET AUSTRO-FRENCH TREATY HAD GIVEN VENICE TO AUSTRIA. HE WAS THE LAST DOGE OF. IS A GOLD COIN THAT WAS MINTED ORIGINALLY IN VENICE FROM 1284 AD UNTIL THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE TO NAPOLEON IN 1797. THE NAME OF THE COIN WAS ORIGINALLY. IS DERIVED, MINTED AT THE.

AND WAS PROBABLY NOT COINED AS A NAME UNTIL THE 16TH CENTURY, WHEN VENICE STARTED THE MINTING OF SILVER. THE COIN DESIGN, WEIGHT AND PURITY REMAINED PRACTICALLY UNCHANGED FOR OVER 500 YEARS, FEATURING THE DOGE KNEELING TO SAINT MARK (PATRON OF VENICE) ON THE OBVERSE AND CHRIST PANTOCRATOR ON THE REVERSE. THE COIN IS ALSO CALLED A SEQUIN, BECAUSE COINS OF THIS TYPE WERE STITCHED INTO WOMEN'S CLOTHING. THE BYZANTINES, TURKS AND OTHER NATIONS COPIED THE VENETIAN ZECCHINO TYPE FOR THEIR OWN COINAGE. CONTAINS 3.4 GRAMS OF.

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