The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896Shaw, William Arthur
History
The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896
Shaw, William Arthur
Money -- History
| |Piccioli neri| 1 0 | 11 0 | --- | --- | --- | --- | 1 |
| 1472 | Quattrini | 1 12 | 10 12 | 16-1/2 | 2-1/24 | 420 | 366 | 4 |
| | Piccioli | 0 6 | 11 18 | 8 | 1/6 | 864 | 252 | 1 |
| 1490 | Quattrini | 2 0 | 10 0 | 16 | 2-2/3 | 432 | --- | 4 |
| | bianchi[F] | | | | | | | |
| | Quattrini | 1 0 | 11 0 | 14-7/8 | 1-1/4 | 465 | --- | 4 |
| 1509 | Do. | 1 0 | 11 0 | 16-5/12 | 1-1/3 | 420 | --- | 4 |
| 1512 | Crazie | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | |
+-----------+-------------+----------+----------+-----------+--------------+------------+-----------+--------------+
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 23: For a corroboration of this, see the texts of the laws of
1460 and 1470.
1460. "Veduta una legge del anno 1452, che provide che in qualunque
pagamento si avesse a fare, si potisse pagare, e cosi fosse accettato,
per ogni fiorino di suggello 4 lire 5 soldi delle monete di grossi
d'Ariento, per la quel cosa e seguito che i grossi sono scemati tanto di
peso che i fiorini larghi per ragguaglio di quelli, dove solevano essere
meglio comuneménte da fiorini 10 in 12 per cent., che i fiorini di
suggello sono iti a fiorini 22 per cent--"
1471. "Che i fiorini di suggello in moneta bianca o nera non abbiano
pregio firmo nè a grossoni, nè a quattrini ma vagliano quello e quanto
sara la sua commune valuta dì per dì e secondo saranno alla camera e
all' Arte del Comtis--"]
[Footnote E: Beginning of the distinction of white and dark monies
(moneta bianca and la nera).]
[Footnote F: Three of which equal one quattro de'ner.]
APPENDIX II
THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF VENICE
The Venetian monetary system of history employed a double basis or
unit:--
1. The _lira di piccioli_, the principal system, and the one which
endured through the whole life of the Republic, from the tenth century
to the introduction of the decimal system in 1806.
2. The _lira di grossi_--an ideal system, i.e. money of accompt only,
and of importance for a much less extensive period. It originated in the
thirteenth century, and was abandoned by the end of the sixteenth.
The "lira" of the first of these systems is derived from the "libra" of
Charlemagne, and, like it, was divided into 20 soldi, each soldo being
subdivided into 12 denari.
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