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Italy has a long history of different coinage types, which spans thousands of years. Italy has been influential at a coinage point of view: the medieval Florentine florin, one of the most used coinage types in European history and one of the most important coins in Western history, [1] was struck in Florence in the 13th century, while the Venetian sequin, minted from 1284 to 1797, was the most ...
Le Bon Coin is a collaborative consumption platform that essentially puts individuals in France in touch with each other when they want to buy or sell. [1] Its economic model is based on the fact that its service is free for individuals, and the geographical location of supply and demand.
The coinage of Capua concerns coins minted in ancient Capua, a city in ancient Campania, corresponding to present-day Santa Maria Capua Vetere.The city was located on the Appian Way and was the most important in the area, probably the largest center in the Italian peninsula after Rome.
Coin production resumed slowly in 1946, reaching 1 million minted in 1948, with the purchasing power of the lira reduced to 2% of its value in 1939. Initially, 1 lira, 2, 5 and 10 lire coins were issued in aluminium. These coins were in circulation together with the AM-lire and some of the old, devalued coins of the Italian Kingdom.
4-colour mezzotint of Louis XV by Le Blon, 1739 Page from Le Blon's 1725 Coloritto describing his RYB three-color printing process [1]. Jacob Christoph Le Blon, or Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, (2 May 1667 – 16 May 1741) was a painter and engraver from Frankfurt who invented a halftone color printing system with three and four copper dyes using an RYB color model, which served as the foundation ...
Le Blond's master plan for St. Petersburg has been known as "a plan conceived by a gardener". Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679 – 10 March 1719) [1] was a French architect and garden designer who became the chief architect of Saint Petersburg in 1716.
The sequin or zechin (/ ˈ s iː k w ɪ n /; Venetian and Italian: zecchino [dzekˈkiːno]) is a gold coin minted by the Republic of Venice from the 13th century onwards. The design of the Venetian gold ducat , or zecchino , remained unchanged for over 500 years, from its introduction in 1284 to the takeover of Venice by Napoleon in 1797.
The Zecca (English: Mint) is a sixteenth-century building in Venice, Italy which once housed the mint of the Republic of Venice.Built between 1536 and 1548, the heavily rusticated stone structure, originally with only two floors, was designed by Jacopo Sansovino in place of an earlier mint specifically to ensure safety from fire and to provide adequate security for the silver and gold deposits.