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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 ...
1 centesimo, between laurel and oak branches tied at bottom with a bow. At the top the star of Italy and in the exergue the mintmark. The 1 lira cent ( Italian: centesimo di lira ), commonly called centesimino, [ 1] was the smallest denomination of Italian lira coins. Like the contemporary 2, 5 and 10 cent coins, it was made of a bronze alloy ...
Fattorini & Sons. Fattorini & Sons manufacturer's label on a Masonic Royal Arch sash. Fattorini & Sons Ltd was a jewellery business established by a family of Italian immigrants who arrived in the British city of Leeds, in Yorkshire, England in the early 19th century. [1] Antonio Fattorini opened a shop in Harrogate to take advantage of ...
Groschen (German: [ˈɡʁɔʃn̩] ⓘ; from Latin: grossus "thick", via Old Czech groš) is the (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in parts of Europe including France, some of the Italian states, England, and various states of the Holy Roman Empire. The word is borrowed from the late Latin description ...
The word mark comes from a merging of three Germanic words, Latinised in 9th-century post-classical Latin as marca, marcha, marha or marcus. [1] It was a measure of weight mainly for gold and silver, commonly used throughout Europe and often equivalent to 8 troy ounces (250 g). Considerable variations, however, occurred throughout the Middle ...
In 1741, the first MTT was struck according to the Reichsthaler standard with 1 ⁄ 9 of a Cologne mark of fine silver, or 25.98 grams. In 1750 a new thaler was struck with a gross weight of 1 ⁄ 10 of 1 Vienna mark of silver, 5 ⁄ 6 fine (with a fine silver content of 23.39 grams, or 1 ⁄ 10 of a Cologne mark).
A silver object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more silver hallmarks indicating the purity of the silver, the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith, and other (optional) markings to indicate the date of manufacture and additional information about the piece. In some countries, a national assayer's ...
Copper coins were issued in denominations of 1 quattrino, 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 baiocco, with silver 5, 10, 20, 30 and 50 baiocchi and 1 scudo, and gold 2 + 1 ⁄ 2, 5 and 10 scudi. In 1849, the Roman Republic issued a coinage consisting of copper 1 ⁄ 2, 1 and 3 baiocchi and silver 4, 8, 16 and 40 baiocchi. Following the restoration of the Papal ...