Utente:Carlomorino/grosso di Venezia

Marco Polo referred to the groat in recounts of his travels to East Asia when describing the currencies of the Yuan Empire.[1] His descriptions were based on the conversion of 1 bisante = 20 groats = 133⅓ tornese.[2][3]


  1. ^ Henry Yule. The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition. 3° ed. (1903), rivista e aggiornata da Henri Cordier. Plain Label Books. p. 1226-27. (ISBN 1603036156)
  2. ^ Henry Yule: cit. p. 1229-30. (Note)
  3. ^ http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Milione/95