A Soldino

Still on a medieval kick, latest addition is a Soldino as well as my first medieval coin featuring a "doge".


Andrea Dandolo (1343 - 1354 A.D.)
Italy, Venice
AR Soldino di nuovo tipo
O: +•ANDR•DAN-"DVLO•DVX•, Doge kneeling left, holding banner.
R: +•S MARCVS VENETI•, nimbate rampant lion left, holding banner; S to left.
Secondo Aventurado, mintmaster.Struck 1353-1354.
15mm
.58g
Cf. CNI VII 23; Papadopoli 5 var. (obv. legend); cf. Paolucci 5.

 

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Nice Medieval Mat! I only have a couple from anywhere in that period, so History behind these coins are all new to me. Me: I like the Lion on the reverse...

 

Nice!

 

Ma, qué bello soldino !

Q

 

Excellent quality Venetian.

 

very very cool

 

I dig it the most!

 

this type was an early pick up for me, i like these....



Republic of Venice, AR Soldino, 1329-1339 AD

O: Doge Francesco Dandolo, + FRA DAN DVLO DVX; R: Nimbate lion with banner, S MAROVS VENETI, 18 mm, 1.1g

 

Nice, wonder why it weighs more than mine.

 

Great coin Mat. I like it a lot. Makes me want to research the type.

 

i don't know, there seems to be quite a bit of variation in the type for the ones i've looked at on vcoins....i don't think there is anything unusual about ours.

but i'm not an expert on these things at all.

 

I saw that when I looked it up too.

Apparently this Doge has family still living to this day.

 

Super fricken cool examples, Mat & chrsmat ... I love the looks of those types!! (congrats)

Ummm, I only have two examples from this coin-century (14th century AD)

... wanna see 'em? (again and again)

Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine, Theobald II
1303-1312 AD
Theobald II on Horse & Sword w Eagles (Alerions)



Duke of Milan, Bernabo & Galeazzo II Visconti
1355-1378 AD
Serpent with maiden & Ambrose on Throne



=> congrats again ... man, I would really like to join your cool coin-club (that OP example is a great type)

 

Great coins, Steve!

 

Excellent pickup! I recently read a paper by Princeton University's Alan Stahl that makes these Venetian coins even more interesting in my eyes. A surprisingly large amount of contemporary written documentation on this mint has survived and is an interesting window into the workings of a pre-modern mint. Stahl has written an entire book on the work, which I do not own, but in this paper he discusses some of the parallels between the Venetian mint and the earlier pre-modern mints of the Roman Republic and the city-state of Athens. It's a quick read at only ~10 pages and I highly recommend taking the time to read through it.

 

Great coin Mat and thanks for the link red_spork!

 

Very nice Mat!

 

Reading it now, thanks for the link.

 

Col addition Mat!

 

That's the type of 'medieval' coin I could easily focus on----LOVE the lion and the history....Terrific coin @Mat

And Steve's examples always make me itch to grab one too LOl