Piero de Ponte · Zecchino · gold
Magistracy 1534–1535 · Order of St John
This gold Zecchino is documented in the name of Piero de Ponte. The consulted collection lists an example as ND, with reference RS#001Ver. This record groups ruler, denomination and metal. It does not count each mint year, surviving specimen or inscription spacing as another type.
Technical specifications
- Composition
- Gold
- Weight
- Unknown / not verified
- Diameter
- Unknown / not verified
- Thickness
- Unknown / not verified
- Total mintage
- Unknown / not verified
- Edge
- Unknown / not verified
- Mint
- Unknown / not verified
- Obverse
- Unknown / not verified
- Reverse
- Unknown / not verified
- Inscriptions
- Unknown / not verified
- Colour
- Unknown / not verified
- Serial format
- Unknown / not verified
The Order obtained permission to mint in Malta during De Ponte’s short magistracy. His gold issue continued the religious iconography inherited from earlier Hospitaller coinage.
A documented specimen
These measurements describe this specimen only, not manufacturing standards.
- Collection
- Collection not documented
- Catalogue reference
- RS#001Ver
- Specimen date
- ND
- Specimen weight
- 3.5 g
- Specimen diameter
- 21.64 mm
Dating and classification
The date interval is the ruler’s Malta magistracy, not a complete list of minting years. Specimen dates are evidence for examples only.
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