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HALF ZECCHINO denomination
Maker(s) & Production: Cooke, John, issuer, British artist, 1866-1932, London, place of issue
Category: 19th-century Tokens England; subsubseries YCOC
Date: 1830 — 1940
Technique:  milled (metal); gilt, scalloped
Material: brass (alloy)
Dimension(s): (width) 24.5mm, (height) 24.5mm
Inscription(s): design; obverse; JOANNES.ILLE.COQVVS.SVI.FILIIQVE; Oval of pellets and stars around 'an object'
design; reverse; IDO[inverted L]NOCEN.. IEMHCVO; Two plant-like figures, one holding long sceptre
The obverse depicts the Doge kneeling before St Mark with YCO between figures, OVCHMEI to the left and IDOLNOCEN [the L upside down] to the right. whilst the reverse has a caricature of Christ and pseudo legend either side.
This piece is an imitation of a Venetian sequin by London merchants in the 19th century to trade with colonized Africa. Similar parts with abstract representations of Christ, the Doge and St. Lawrence / St. Mark, are known in India. In the eastern Mediterranean, the Venetian sequins have long been the means of payment and have been imitated many times.

These were made in imitation of the sequins to advertise the company John Cooke & Co, Stationers off Cannon Street, London EC4 from 1830 to 1940. Several varieties are known and appear to have been made in London, Birmingham

Venetian ducats were popular in Africa. So popular that they were imitated in gilt copper. According to, The Venetian Gold Ducat and its Imitations by  H. E. Ives, New York 1954, page 32: A later and apparently final form of these tokens has the same obverse and reverse type and the same obverse legend, but with the reverse legend altered to JOANNES. ILLE. COQVVS. SVI FILIIQUE. These tokens, which are of two sizes and are usually gilt, are reputed to have been struck by London merchants named John Cook and Sons in the nineteenth century for the East African trade. (...) With these shoddy tokens the long line of ducats, which flourished for over five hundred years as a 'universal' coinage of high esteem, comes to an end.

Token is inspired by a Venetian ducat in the name Alvise (Aloys) Mocenigo III (1722-32), but it has the Google translation quality Latin text cited above, apparently referring to John Cook and sons, dealers in stationery and sealing wax in London, presumably struck in Birmingham for the East Africa trade. 

Reference: [A Literary and Historical Atlas of Africa and Australasia Par John George Bartholomew]


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The design of the Venetian gold ducat, or zecchino, remained unchanged for over 500 years, from its introduction in 1284 to the takeover of Venice by Napoleon in 1797. No other coin design has ever been produced over such a long historical period.

The reverse bears a motto in Latin hexameter: Sit tibi, Christe, datus // quem tū regis, iste ducātus ("Christ, let this duchy that you rule be given to you").

Initially called "ducat" (ducato), for the ruling Doge of Venice who was prominently depicted on it, it was called the zecchino, after the Zecca (mint) of Venice, since 1543 when Venice began minting a silver coin also called a ducat. The name of the mint ultimately derives from Arabic: سكّة‎ (sikka), meaning a coin mould or die.

In some regions, in later centuries, this type of coins were stitched to women's clothing such as headdresses – this eventually led to the origin of the more modern word "sequins" to denote small shiny, circular decorations. Following the Venetian model, similar coins were used for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. After two hundred years of continuous zecchino production, the Byzantine Empire imitated with the basilikon. In 1478, the Ottoman Empire introduced a similar unit. In 1535, the Knights Hospitaller of Malta did so. The Ottoman and the Maltese coins were also gold.

 

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