Definition

• A small Venetian silver coin in- troduced about the period of the Doge Andrea Gritti (1523-1538), and continued until the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury. The type usually represents a flori- ated cross on one side and the lion of .St. Mark on the other.

  The name is supposed to be derived from the Illyrian word bees, meaning a small piece of money.

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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