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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2805162, member: 74712&quot;]Welcome Gory!&nbsp; The whole in your coin is in a spot that may make it difficult to full pin down the doge under while the coin was minted. On the obverse, St Mark is blessing the Doge, who is kneeling before him.&nbsp; To the right of the Doge you can see his name.&nbsp; I can easily make out the last name which is &quot;Moceni&#039;&quot; which I believe would be one of the doges with the last name &quot;Mocenigo.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There were seven different Mocenigos between the 16th and 19th centuries.&nbsp; From what I can make out of the first name, we have &quot;A.O __).&nbsp; The clear &#039;A&#039; suggests it is one of the doges name &quot;Alvise&quot; (there were two), but there was also an Alvise Giovanni from 1763-1779.&nbsp; If that &#039;O&#039; is a &#039;G&#039; then that may be your guy, but I can&#039;t tell from the picture (and again, the hole is in an inconvenient spot).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also warn that these were heavily imitated.&nbsp; This could be a copy of a Venetian ducat, but I am not knowledgeable enough about these to know.&nbsp; The style of the design doesn&#039;t look quite right to me, but I have mostly looked at ducats from the 13th-16th centuries, so if this is from the 18th century, then the style may well have evolved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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