Buy Zecchino in Venice: ancient pure venetian gold
The Zecchino was the purest, most accurately measured gold coin in late medieval Europe and as such became the World's standard unit of currency for nearly half a millennium.
This coin was first created in the 13th century in Venice, the leading trading power of the day, in order to counteract the influence of the rival city of Florence and its gold coin, the florin. It portrays St Mark handing the banner of the Venetian city-state to the kneeling doge, as a sign that the ruler received his power from God. The ducatus, called zecchino since XVI sec., became the major currency of the eastern Mediterranean, and like many successful products it was also imitated in other countries, for example in the Hapsburg Empire, in Hungary, the Netherlands and in the Holy Roman Empire (medieval Germany). Shakespeare mentions it many times in "The Merchant of Venice," as well as in "Hamlet."
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Etichette: Arte, Laguna di Venezia, Numismatica, Repubblica di Venezia, Sciretti Alberto, Storia, Venezia, Zecchino