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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3111662, member: 74834&quot;]What a great piece of thinking, Rob, that I yet have to ponder. (And it set me into a short but enjoyable read of British history of 1460-1485.) Do you think the great city of Venice on its own could be responsible for draining Europe&#039;s silver and gold in the 13th century? Probably other city states in the north of Italy were nicely coming along. Can&#039;t say that I know much about that subject. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s another nice silver Venice coin, a soldino, much much smaller than that large Lira. The soldino was introduced in 1331 (Alan M. Stahl, <i>Zecca. The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages</i>, p. 43. There were 64 soldinos in one gold ducat), but this one is from 1356-1361, issued during the reign of Doge Giovanni Dolfin. Obv. Kneeling Doge with staff. Rev. Lion of St. Mark. 16 mm, 0.55 gr.</p><p>I believe soldinos are being found often in British soil, so, Rob, that might be an argument you can use.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789669[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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