Definition

• From doppio, double, is the name of a former gold coin of a number of the Italian States, and the double of some recognized unit.

  It appears in Milan in the fifteenth century under the Sforza dynasty as a piece of two Zecchini, and it bore the same value in Malta.

  As a coin of two Scudi it occurs in the coinage of Genoa, Venice, Mantua, the Papal series both at Rome and Bologna, etc.

  The name is variously written as Doppione and Doppietta, the latter form usually for Sardinia.

Quelle

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

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