An old Italian coin or monetary unit used in medieval times; also spelled checcia.
From Italian 'cecca', possibly from a verb meaning 'to miss' or 'to fail', though the exact origin is debated among numismatists.
Medieval coins like the cecca tell fascinating stories—by studying how their weight and purity changed over time, historians can track economic crises, trade routes, and even wars in medieval Italy without reading a single document.
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