ITALY. Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages. Alan M. Stahl. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the American Numismatic Society, 2000. Hardback, 497 pages, in the publisher?s dust jacket. ISBN 0-8018-6383-X. The standard modern study of the Venetian mint from the ninth through the fifteenth century, built on deep archival work alongside the close study of thousands of coins and hoards, and setting out how the Zecca functioned day to day, its technology and organisation, and the wider economic role Venetian coinage played in medieval trade and finance. Well illustrated and fully documented, it remains essential for anyone working with Venetian issues or the monetary history of medieval Europe. A very clean, well-kept copy with a bright jacket and crisp pages throughout.

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