so a hello collectors how are you going today is medieval day Oh
medieval whatever you want to call it so for that I have some Venetian coins
and it's a net Ian Turner Sally's and the ISA coins were issued for Greece
only or the Venetian colonies in Greece but because during late thirteen
hundreds early 1400s the Dini anti-noise sort of ceased to be minted in Greece
this coin actually replaced it and became the most common coin at the time
so the initial weight of this coin was actually supposed to be 0.75 of a gram
so not precisely one gram and it was a valued at about 320 coins to the Benetti
and mark the vanadium mark was a two hundred and thirty eight point five
grams so if you divide free 255 8 point 5 divided by 3 xx 0 point seven five
but these coins are never really found at that weight so I'm 1368 know about
sixty point 65 grams nine 1386 over at point 69 grams and after thirteen $86
point six grams in these coins are called a billion coins so to actually
low value silver in them and the actual quantity of silver in these coins is
only eleven percent but the range is really about eight to fourteen percent
so at the start there is a and really no quantity of silver that was standard in
the coins but the average is 11% in the actual value of these coins over our
free piccoli which the vignetting coin sister was
pretty similar to the UK coordinate system so it was one lira because 20
soldi equals 240 piccoli and this one is were free piccoli
or one quarter of a saudi so it's pretty much equivalent to free pants in the old
currency system and it really had a silver value that was only half of that
sony about 1/2 piccoli or 1/2 pence or silver value so actually instead of 4
days equaling a Saudi in the Saudi was actually 95% silver but only half a gram
either actually would have been made about a disease to run Saudi so the
soldi coin in about 4 and 1/2 grams of silver this one then he had a belt mm
0.5 point that point seven-five a gram so this is only about 20% over the
Saudis value you know ever read an article down below and it's really
interesting about these coins Chris it's just fascinating and I learnt so much
about it so on this side we have a cross and on this side should also be the name
of the Dodge now the Dodge is like a magistrate in Venice and he was elected
for life so this shall be a cross up the top so
like
somewhere in there so across don't know maybe I check one
of the ever coins okay so yeah up those hobbies across in starting so sorry I
had to get a pin so starting here is actually the name of the thought so it
should be he's part of his first name part of his last name Nadine has Dux so
if we have a look at this looks like it starts with an M there's actually quite
a few Todd J so this might be raining up a
Leah 13:54 1355 could be a Mark O'Connor 13 65 68 alright there's quite a few
others to start with him as well so because this is import grade it actually
is pretty hard to work out who is on it so on the other side we have the vanity
in line with wings so these sticking up here actually the
wings the lion's head is there and this is his body and around we have another
inscription near line and he's called the Saint Marcus line with gospel
because usually as a book so here's the actual book ii you can just see it quite
well and in the rena side has beck silly fur venecia and that just means our
standard bearer of venice so did dolce needs to stay in a pair of venice and
these actually lost their value quite slowly over the hundred year period so
the helpful of these coins was about between one and five million per year
that's according to the reference i'll leave down below and it's ready to the
duct air in 1359 so the duct it's three and a half grams of gold it
was in 1359 about 264 of these coins but I can't in 1424 when they actually
stopped minting these coins up and to
1462 so a bet bet 40 years cuz there's just so many of them so at that time was
only 520 so actually doubled in value well you know in terms of buckets or
double decrease by half and in 1466 it actually decreased through 792 and the
reason for this was because of the high number that were actually meant it when
you flood the market with a coin it actually D values it even if it's silver
so if you read about coins over different time periods sometimes when
there is a reduction in the silver coin in circulation it becomes more valuable
and when there is an increase in silver or even gold for that matter and
actually decreases the value so gold and silver despite what people think if
there's more of it decreases in its actual value if it's less increases just
like any commodity and it doesn't actually retain the same value over the
whole time period so what could these actually buy you at the time well for
two days coins you could actually buy a 340 gram loaf of bread or that's in our
1366 nine 1370 pakusa grain prices actually decreased you
could actually buy like a 400 gram loaf of bread and that is actually pretty
much the same size as a loaf of bread now well probably about half the size
actually of a loaf of bread now like for breads and now is usually where
seven 800 grams so that is what these could actually owe you for the wages for
workmen in 1482 constructing the coffin fortress they actually got paid about 16
to 22 on salary a day mmm to repair a forwarding Negroponte was
about 48 - le a day that's for a Mason and for laborers about 24 to 32 20 sylia
day so they actually got paid quite a lot of these coins so they really were
not probably equivalent to the UK penny for a seaman in 1422 they got paid back
1282 anise le a month so that that's about um about three hundred roughly
three hundred and twenty-two and sell in a week so it's quite a lot of these
coins so there's been like a few hoards of these off a few thousand coins found
so that would have been someone's wages most likely for on Osman
they've got paid 1220 le a month and for the defense of mode on I got 40 20
surely per day so 40 of these coins and that is what these coins could have
bought you and what people got paid in them so on this side we actually have a
better image of the lion let's see which way is it actually
so let's get yeah so here are the wings there's there's the line so here are the
wings this is head the two eyes they're obviously this has been damaged there
and looks like he's got the book there
maybe that is a book Dan he's holding his hands actually bit hard and here's
the inscription so Vic dearly yeah Vaness he is actually off the
inscription yeah on the other side the other side
it's actually quite you're right I'm probably never gonna actually be able to
identify these for certain because of the condition of the coin and as you can
see from the flame in the earlier year so actually a lot better plans and
they're meeting this like this this is probably actually a earlier coin and
it's probably been flattened through we're most likely and it has these
borders up here so to avoid clipping but quite honestly
as you can see a lot of the image is actually off the plan okay so here's a
cross up there that's a cross I'm talking about that separates the end of
this side the the ex Dux and he's named actress that there but obviously most of
it illegible so really I'm not going to identify this coin but because it's a
good flan it's more likely and it's actually one of the earlier issues so
before or 1400s and how many different Duty were actually issuing these coins
so there's a bit 12 different douche a dodge or whatever you want to call them
and that's only between 14:53 when I first issued and 1350 free shall I say
in 1471 and obviously these coins were minted up into 1505 but after 1471
actually become her number 2014 23 and 14 62 they're actually not that common
because it was very few minted in that time period so anyway I hope that you
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