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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 7914190, member: 91771&quot;]Arrived today: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1366997[/ATTACH] </p><p>Venice, Lira Nicolo Tron undated (1471-1473) Obverse: Bust of Doge left TRONVS. DVX. NICOLAVS, Reverse: Lion within inner circle MARCVS SANCTVS, 6.45 grammes, Biaggi#2901, Paolucci 2</p><p><br /></p><p>The Lira Tron is a very significant Renaissance coin for several reasons: It represents the first use of the Lira--money of account since the monetary reforms of Charlemagne--as an actual minted and circulating denomination. </p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, it is the first and only portrait of a doge in the whole of venetian coinage (excepting one other trial proof for Tron&#039;s successor-- and Tron&#039;s own ae coinage). There was an uproar that the coin was two imperial and the deeply republican Venetians banned all Doges from having their likeness on money, following Tron&#039;s death.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the coin represents one of the first realistic portraits on a coin during the renaissance--following the ducat of Francesco Sforza, but predating and prefiguring by two years the testone of Gian Galeazzo Sforza. </p><p><br /></p><p>The name of the engraver is known: Antonio della Moneta, or Anthony of the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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