Mocenigo of Andrea Gritti from Venice Mint: Venice
Magistrate: Ruzier Contarini
Ruler: Andrea Gritti, Venetian, 1455–1538
Magistrate: Venice

1536

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6.29 g, 6:00, 33 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.32257

Geography

Made in Venice, Italy

Culture

Venetian

Period

16th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: ANDREAS * GRITI * S M VENET D V X. Doge, on knees, at r. facing l. towards a standing St. Mark, haloed. Both hold a staff, topped by a flag, placed between them.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: TIBI SOLI GLORIA. Christ the Redeemer stands at center on a dias marked R C.
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Bibliography
  • Christopher W. Platts and Michael Widener, Representing the Law in the Most Serene Republic: Images of Authority from Renaissance Venice, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Law School, 2016), 16, fig. 12
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money

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