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Description: | A silver Venetian soldino of Doge Antonio Venier (1382-1400), dating to the late medieval period.
The soldino (plural ??soldini??), basically means the ??little shilling??. They were nicknamed the ??galyhalpens??, or Galley-halfpence after the ??Galley-men?? who imported them, though this is a slightly misleading name because not all coins came over by galley; contemporary documents also refer to money being sent overland to England via courier.
During the 15th and 16th centuries there was a serious shortage of English struck halfpennies in circulation, and so people turned to soldini to fill the gap. These coins contained slightly less silver than the english halfpenny and so the English government attempted to rid the country of them through a series of restrictions and seizures at various points in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The coins recorded on the PAS span the period 1382 to 1538, and show that there were two main incursions. The first was under Doge Michele Steno (1400-13), and the second was 100 years later under Doge Loredan (1501-1521). This coin was part of the first incursion. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daubney, Adam - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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