Esempi
Moreover, although some end words are illegible on the right side, it is clear that a rebate was granted: the tenants owed 4.16 lire while they actually paid 4.8 lire, as the remaining 8 soldi had been discounted.
In sixteenth-century governmental documents dealing with the Zecca, however, this particular representation of the lion is invariably called ‘San Marco in soldo,’ after the name of the coin, the soldo , on which it frequently appeared.
The reliefs of the ‘leon in soldo ’ and Justice on the portal, then, seem to refer deliberately to the coins that were being issued in the mid-sixteenth century to solve this pressing problem for the Venetian economy.
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