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Stahl: Zecca - The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages

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Stahl: Zecca - The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages
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Stahl, Alan M. ZECCA - THE MINT OF VENICE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. The Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the American Numismatic Society. 2000. 8vo. 497 pages. Original purple cloth, lettered in silver. dust jacket. 25 b&w figures, 7 maps. Fine. This book is the first to examine the workings of a premodern mint using extensive research in original documents as well as detailed study of the coins themselves. The first of the book's three sections traces the coinage of Venice from its origins in the ninth century as a minor, and unofficial, regional Italian coinage to its position at the dawn of the Renaissance as the dominant currency of Mediterranean trade. The second section, entitled "The Mint in the Life of Medieval Venice," illustrates the mechanisms of the control of bullion and the strategies for mint profit and explores the mint's role in Venetian trade and the emergence of a bureaucratized government. The third section, "Within the Mint," examines the physical operations that transformed raw bullion into coins and identifies the personnel of the mint, situating the holders of each position in the context of their social and professional backgrounds. Illustrated with photos of Venetian coinage from the world's major collections, Zecca also includes a listing of all holders of offices related to the medieval Venetian mint and summaries of all major finds of medieval Venetian coins. Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Economics from the Association of American Publishers. Lot weight: 1lb 14oz. Subject(s): Italian Mint History.