oa Lo (stra)ordinario caso della collezione Zane nella Venezia del XVII e XVIII secolo

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The numismatic collection of the Zane family has many extraordinary features in the panorama of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Venetian collecting. Formed in the last decades of the seventeenth century with only a few hundred antique gold coins, this collection seems to have been created almost by chance from local finds and preserved by three generations of Zane family members essentially as a means of social prestige and as a value reserve. Dispersed on the British antique market in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Zane Collection became part of the collection of King George III and is now in the British Museum.