Définition

• A silver coin of Venice which receives its name from the Doge Nicolo Marcello (1473-1474), who introduced it. It was retained until the middle of the sixteenth century.

  Originally its value was ten Soldi, but later issues were struck of four, six, and eight Soldi, as well as one of five Soldi for colonial purposes.

  The Marcello bears on the obverse a figure of the standing or crowned Christ, and on the reverse the kneeling figure of the Doge, in the act of receiving a banner from St. Mark.

  The type was copied at Mantua as early as 1529 and was retained under Francesco I Gonzaga (1540-1550). In the coinage of Modena during the sixteenth century the Grosso of five Soldi was also copied from the Marcello.

La source

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

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