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MEDIEVAL COIN
A silver Venetian soldino of Doge Michael Steno dating to the period AD 1400 - 1413. S MARCVS VENETI reverse depicting Doge kneeling left and holding banner. Mint of Venice.During the 15th and 16th centuries the English economy experienced a serious shortage of English-struck halfpennies. In order to fill this gap people began using foreign coinage such as the soldino, meaning 'little shilling', …
Subject
- archaeology - MEDIEVAL
Type of item
- COIN
- Coin
Medium
- Silver
- Silver
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Creation date
- 1400
- 1400
Places
- United Kingdom; York; York
Identifier
- YORYM-F3A6AC
Year
- 1400
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-04-19T15:53:18.073Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:50:22.620Z