fwo_868610 - ITALY - VENICE - PIETRO GRADENIGO (49th doge) Grosso ou Matapan c. 1290-1310 Venise

ITALY - VENICE - PIETRO GRADENIGO (49th doge) Grosso ou Matapan c. 1290-1310 Venise VF

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Type : Grosso ou Matapan

Date: c. 1290-1310

Mint name / Town : Venise

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 965 ‰

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,77 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Ce grosso est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et a été nettoyé. Poids léger

Catalogue references :

Mont. (V)65 - CNI/VII.4

Obverse

Obverse legend : IC - XC.

Obverse description : Le Christ nimbé trônant de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant de la gauche, les Évangiles.

Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PE GRADONICO - S. M. VENETI.

Reverse description : Le Doge et Saint-Marc debout de face, tenant ensemble l'oriflamme de la République ; dans le champ, verticalement D/V/X.

Historical background

ITALY - VENICE - PIETRO GRADENIGO (49th doge)

(1289-1311)

Pierre Gradenigo was elected doge by the patricians against Jacques Tiepolo, partisan of the democratic clan. He is at the origin of the aristocratic government of Venice with the creation of the Forty. From this date, the Doge was no longer elected but chosen by the Council. In 1296, he favored the creation of the Golden Book where the members of the Great Council were registered. At the end of his doganat, he created the Council of Ten, an organ of government. After facing several popular revolts, he died in 1311.