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中国刊物不久前发表息消说,在广州发现了一枚15世纪的威尼斯银币。这就给我们提供了一个机会,可以对在第一批葡萄牙船只抵达印度(1498)和中国(1516)之前这一时期內欧洲与东方的钱币作些考察。在明朝太监韦眷(死于1487年,译者注:应为公元1495年或稍早)墓里发现的这枚银币,是在帕斯夸尔·马利皮埃罗总督统治威尼斯期间(1457—1462)铸造的,直径1.3—1.9厘米,重1.4克。这枚银币叫做格罗索(grosso)或格罗塞托(grossetto)。在帕斯夸尔·帕马利皮埃罗统治期间铸造的这种格罗索银币常常加以锉磨,以致使这种银币低于其法定重量。然而,在广州发现的这枚银币
Not long ago, the Chinese publication made an announcement that he had found a 15th-century Venetian silver coin in Guangzhou. This provided us with an opportunity to examine the coins of Europe and the East during the period before the first Portuguese ships arrived in India (1498) and China (1516). The silver coin found in the tombs of the Ming dynasty (died in 1487) was found during the reign of Governor Pascual Malipeiro (in the year 1987) 1457-1462), 1.3-1.9 cm in diameter and 1.4 g in weight. This coin is called grosso or grossetto. This Grosso silver coin, cast during the reign of Pascual Parmalie Pierrot, is often rasped so that the silver is below its legal weight. However, this silver coin found in Guangzhou