Carantano Publique Deposited
also variously written Car- ano, and Charantano, and possibly a cor- ruption of Carinthia. The general name in Italy for the Grosso Tirolino. It is thus referred to as early as 1509 in some cor- respondence between the Emperor Maxi- milian and Giacomo IV, Appiani, Signor of Piombino. During the sixteenth cen- tury and later the name was common in Venice and other parts of Northern Italy to indicate the Kreuzer, and it was es- pecially used for the Austrian Kreuzer struck by Francis Joseph I for Milan, etc. Multiples of five and ten Carantini of this issue exist in silver. Conf. Quarantano, infra.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)