The verification of coins in Modena from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

The verification of coins in Modena from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

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This work analyzes the instruments, such as scales and monetary weights, that bankers, money changers, merchants and even the small people ... Read more

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This work analyzes the instruments, such as scales and monetary weights, that bankers, money changers, merchants and even the small people of the Modena area, who every day had to face the problems related to the penetration of foreign currencies in the market. internal, in the presence of counterfeit, altered or "sheared" coins, they used to verify and, consequently, accept the proposed coins.

The many “finds” unearthed in public and private collections are accompanied by an examination of the relative legislation, of which various “shouts” are proposed in support of the text. In addition, the entire framework of the verification stamps used by the Modenese authorities responsible for verifying the monetary weights from the year 1824, the date of entry into force of the new regulation, at the end of the Duchy is proposed.