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The name given to a Venetian silver coin originally issued under the Doge Alvise I Mocenigo (1570-1577) and continued by his successors until the latter part of the seventeenth century. The name is derived from the figure of St. Giustina on the coin, on whose name day, October 7, 1571, the battle of Lepanto was fought and the Venetians gained an important naval victory over the Turks. The coin is consequently what may be called a Victory Thaler, which is confirmed by the view of ships on the open sea, and the inscription MEMOR. ERO. TVI. IVSTINA. VIRGO.
There are two varieties: the Giustina Maggiore, of a value of 160 Soldi, with divisions of one half, one quarter, one eighth, and one thirty-second, and a smaller type, the Giustina minore, of 124 Soldi, with similar divisions.
The latter coin was imitated by Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena (1597-1628), with a value of twenty Bolognini.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)