Definition

• The name given to a small copper coin current in Malta and the two Sicilies from the middle of the sixteenth century. Its value was one sixth of a Grano.

  In the coinage of Verona it is found as early as the period of Michele Steno (1400- 1413), and in the Venetian series from Doge Sebastian Ziani (1172-1178). These early varieties are rude coins of the De- nier type with a cross on both obverse and reverse.

Quelle

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

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