A small Italian gold coin from the 16th century, decorated with religious imagery.
From Italian 'cecchino' or similar, possibly diminutive form related to 'cecca'; -ine is a feminine or diminutive suffix in Italian.
Renaissance cecchines are treasure for historians because their religious designs reflected exactly what was important to people at that moment in history—and finding them buried or in hoards tells us about sudden events that made people hide their money.
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