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1 Soldo
| Issuer | Republic of Ragusa |
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| Year | 1678-1797 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central figure of Christ standing facing, flanked on either side by a small Coat of Arms of Ragusa, all enclosed within a circle of stars forming the border. The field beyond the star circle is plain. No legends or inscriptions appear on the reverse, the heraldic shields serving as the sole secondary design elements flanking the central religious figure. |
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| Mintage | 1678 - Type 1 (no date) - 1682 - Type 2 - 1689 - Type 2 - 1706 - Type 2 - 1707 - Type 2 - 1712 - Type 3 - 1720 - Type 3 - 1723 - Type 3 - 1729 - Type 2 - 1731 - Type 2 - 1750 - Type 2 - 1752 - Type 2 - 1762 - Type 2 - 1770 - Type 2 - 1771 - Type 2 - 1780 - Type 2 - 1781 - Type 2 - 1791 - Type 2 - 1793 - Type 2 - 1795 - Type 2 - 1796 - Type 2 - 1797 - Type 2 - |
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Ragusa maintained nominal Ottoman suzerainty throughout this coin's entire production window, paying an annual tribute in exchange for the autonomy that kept its merchant fleet operating across the eastern Mediterranean. That arrangement, renewed repeatedly from the 15th century onward, meant the Republic could strike its own copper without interference — a commercial necessity for a city-state whose economy ran on small transactions at the harbor. The soldo served port commerce for over a century without a design change, which is itself a political statement about Ragusan institutional conservatism.