Ducat of Michele Steno (1400-1413).Denarius of Louis the Pious (minted 819-822).Republic of Venice, Grosso or 'Matapan' of Antonio Venier, Doge of Venice (1382-1400).Silver ducato of Giovanni II Cornaro.
The Coinage of the Republic of Venice include the coins produced by the Republic of Venice from the late 12th century to 1866.[1] After this date, coins were still produced in Venice.
From the 16th century, the coinage was made in the very prominently-located Zecca of Venice, close to the Doge's Palace.
use the badly debased remnants ofthecoinage system introduced by Charlemagne. Venice struck silver pennies (called denari in Italian) based on the coinage...
TheRepublicofVenice (Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was...
copper. During the reign of Leopoldo II of Tuscany (19th century), it was worth three quattrini. The Napoleonic reformation of Italian coinage (early 19th...
The lira (plural lire) was the distinct currency ofVenice until 1848, when it was replaced by the Italian lira. It originated from the Carolingian monetary...
The Ionian Islands were an overseas possession oftheRepublicofVenice from the mid-14th century until the late 18th century. The conquest ofthe islands...
western coinage, Venice struck ducats without them until Napoleon ended the Venetian Republic in 1797. When the Roman Senate introduced gold coinage either...
Ancona's loss of autonomy, only therepublicsofVenice, Genoa, and Ragusa remained, which still experienced great moments of splendor until the mid-17th century...
Tripoli. The first reports of Ancona's medieval coinage begin in the 12th century when the independence ofthe city grew and it began to mint coinage without...
timeline ofthe history oftheRepublicofVenice from its legendary foundation to its collapse under the efforts of Napoleon. 421: On Friday 25 March, the city...
Venice, which is situated at the north end ofthe Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being...
1018 document in theRepublicofVenice. An Arabic travel writer Abu Hamid al-Gharnati recorded in 1154 that a "land of Slavs" near the Danube used actual...
theRepublicof Pisa in the Battle of Meloria for the dominance over the Tyrrhenian Sea, and it was an eternal rival ofVenice for dominance in the Mediterranean...
TheVenice Biennale (/ˌbiːɛˈnɑːleɪ, -li/; Italian: La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by...
scarce. Thecoinageofthe Roman Republic started with a few silver coins apparently devised for trade with Celtic in northern Italy and the Greek colonies...
part oftheRepublicofVenice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one ofthe largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world...
the Byzantine Empire, surpassing theRepublicofVenice itself. Its influence also extended to the major islands ofthe Tyrrhenian Sea: Sardinia from 1207...
TheRepublicof Florence (Italian: Repubblica di Firenze), known officially as the Florentine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Fiorentina, pronounced [reˈpubblika...
and Šibenik. Pavao became the Ban of Croatia, conferring on him many ofthe powers of a monarch including minting coinage, conferring charters on cities...
the Greeks had prompted a need for silver coinage in addition to the bronze currency that the Romans were using at that time. This predecessor ofthe...
Ducato di Candia) was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony oftheRepublicofVenice, from the initial Venetian conquest...
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