The pound was the currency of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.

The pound was made of 4.33 grams of silver

Silver

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 (with 9/10 of purity), correspondently to the German

Germany

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 standards. Six pounds were called shield

Shield

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 (scudo) and were equivalent to the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n Conventionsthaler

Conventionsthaler

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. Each pound was divided into 100 cents (centesimi). All currencies were a re-establishment of the pounds

Milanese scudo

The scudo was the currency of the Duchy of Milan until 1796. It was subdivided into 6 lire, each of 20 soldi or 240 denari. It was equal to the Conventionsthaler. It was replaced by the lira of the Cispadane Republic, with Cispadanian lira equal to the Milanese. This in turn was replaced in 1797 by...

 used in the Duchy of Milan

Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan , was created on the 1st of may 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of Milan, purchased a diploma for 100,000 Florins from King Wenceslaus. It was this diploma that installed, Gian Galeazzo as Duke of Milan and Count of Pavia...

 until 1796, whereas they had no relation with former defunct Venetian pound. Coins were minted in Milan, Venice and Vienna.

Due to the heavy consequences of the war, Austria was not able to immediately produce the new currency when it took possession of the territory in 1814. So, Napoleonic Italian lira

Italian lira

The lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a “national subunit” of the euro...

 continued to be a legal tender for eight years after the fall of its inventor. The first issue of the Austrian currency was possible only in 1822. New pounds had a lower value than their French-Italian predecessors, which weighed 5 grams.

During the revolutions of 1848, the Lombard Provisional Government briefly suspended the production of the pound and minted instead a special Italian lira ₤5 coin. After the revolutions and the restoration of the Austrian monetary standard, copper coins were reduced in weight. For political purposes the name on these coins (the most popular in circulation) was changed from Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia to the Austrian Empire.

When metropolitan Austria decimalized in 1857, the change did not immediately affected the Kingdom, where old pounds were minted again in 1858. Only in 1862, after the loss of Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

 to the new born Italian

Italy

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 State, did the remaining part of the Austrian territories adopt the general coinage of the Empire. The Lombardy-Venetia florin

Lombardy-Venetia florin

The florin was the currency of Lombardy-Venetia between 1862 and 1866. It replaced the pound at a rate of 1 florin = 3 pounds. The florin was equivalent to the Austro-Hungarian gulden . Although it was subdivided into 100 soldi rather than 100 Kreuzer, Austrian coins circulated in Venetia...

 (equal to the Austro-Hungarian gulden

Austro-Hungarian gulden

The Gulden or forint was the currency of the Austrian Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1754 and 1892 when it was replaced by the Krone/korona as part of the introduction of the gold standard. In Austria, the Gulden was initially divided into 60 Kreuzer, and in Hungary, the...

) became the basic unit of currency, and was divided in 100 soldi; only subunits were specifically produced for the Venetian province. Curiously on these coins, the word Lombardy-Venetia re-appeared, as a sign of revanchism

Revanchism

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for the lost Lombardy.

Copper coins

• 1 cent (centesimo)
  • Weight: 1.75 grams
  • Type 1852: 1.09 grams
• 3 cents
  • Weight: 5.25 grams
  • Type 1852: 3.28 grams
• 5 cents
  • Weight: 8.75 grams
  • Type 1852: 5.47 grams
• 10 cents
  • Sole issue: 1852
  • Type 1852: 10.94 grams
• 15 cents
  • Sole issue: 1852
  • Type 1852: 16.04 grams

Silver coins

• ¼ pound
  • Value: 25 cents
  • Purity: 6/10
  • Weight: 1.62 grams
• ½ pound
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 2.17 grams
• 1 pound (lira austriaca)
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 4.33 grams
• 1 florin (fiorino)
  • Value: 3 pounds
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 12.99 grams
• 1 shield (scudo)
  • Value: 6 pounds
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 25.99 grams

Gold coins

• ½ sovereign
  • Value: 20 pounds
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 5.67 grams
• 1 sovereign (sovrana)
  • Value: 40 pounds
  • Purity: 9/10
  • Weight: 11.33 grams