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Sounds like a pawn shop transaction (pignus).
Solidi makes best sense in the context.
Funny, but there are coin dealers out there on the web selling Venetian
silver grosso coins.
Tom Izbicki
Laura Jacobus wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Thanks Matej and Tom. I'd already found this, but not the answer to my
> specific query. Still, it's amazing what you can find on the web!
> The sign I'm looking at, incidentally, is very similar to the S
> cancelled by a flourish, which is listed in Cappelli 's /'Dizionario
> di Abbreviature'/ p.336 as standing for 'solidi, sunt or sive'. Only
> 'solidi' might make sense in the context, which seems to refer to a
> deposit: 'i(n) pignori pro [solidi sign?] xxxx grossorum'
>
> all best
>
> Laura
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Matej Župančič <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* 'Laura Jacobus' <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* 29 April 2009 14:38
> *Subject:* FW: [M-R] paleographic query/venetian money
>
> Sometimes helps Google. Matej
>
> http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb/about_mueller.html#foreignExchange
>
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> *From:* medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval
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> Behalf Of *Laura Jacobus
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:28 PM
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> *Subject:* [M-R] paleographic query/venetian money
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>
> This is not strictly relevant to the list, but can anyone help me
> with a query about Venetian money. I'm trying to decipher a
> conventional sign in a document, and it could stand for 'soldi',
> but only if there was a unit of money called 'soldi di grossi'. I
> know there were soldi and grossi, but were there soldi di grossi?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Laura
>
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