- a variation of sequin.
zecchino
Americannoun
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zecchini
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of zecchino
1610–20; < Italian. See sequin
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Florentine gigliati Venetian zecchino All other gold coins to be taken as bullion at a value of 280 fl. for the Cologne mark of fine gold.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
Between 1280 and 1284 Venice also struck 629 a gold coin, known first as the ducat, afterwards as the zecchino or sequin, the ducat becoming merely a money of account.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
I value it not a zecchino; and wert thou to depose me to-morrow, I should be the master of ye in another month, did it please me to command a people so capricious.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
I'll wager a zecchino they have come from Naples.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James
I should never have rescued the Doge; I should never have got the zecchini.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
There are three thousand zecchini for you to receive.
From Andrea Delfin by Pullen, Michael
I remember a Venetian who once said, coming to a feast, “I would not take five gold zecchini for this thirst which I now have.”
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Schnuri, the king's jester, asked him jeeringly whether all his zecchini were tested on the stone by which the bit of Prince Abdallah's dun horse was proved.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm
At one time it was a Russian imperial, at another an English sovereign, while sometimes it was German thalers and Spanish dollars, intermixed with a few Venetian zecchini, that were given in payment.
From The Tower of Dago by Jókai, Mór
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