Posted 03/10/2013 6:47 pm
Tell me if I'm off base here, but though this obverse is very much consistent with a tornesello, the reverse legend of a tornesello should read VEXELIFER VENETIA. I believe this coin is a mule, with the tornesello obverse and a reverse die intended for a silver soldino, which also featured the winged lion of St Mark, but the legend S MARCO VENETI.
Oops; I take it back. The pellets in the angles of the obverse cross indicate a later tornesello, and those did have the S MARCO VENETI reverse legend. Helps to narrow down the doge, though, and I believe it reads LEO LAVREDANVS DUX, for Leonardo Loredan (1501-21).
Oops; I take it back. The pellets in the angles of the obverse cross indicate a later tornesello, and those did have the S MARCO VENETI reverse legend. Helps to narrow down the doge, though, and I believe it reads LEO LAVREDANVS DUX, for Leonardo Loredan (1501-21).
Edited by philadelphian
03/10/2013 6:59 pm
03/10/2013 6:59 pm
