1/2 Grosso - Stephen Uroš V

Cattaro — modern Kotor, on the Montenegrin coast — occupied an unusual position in the mid-fourteenth century: nominally under Serbian suzerainty during the reign of Stephen Uroš V, yet operating its own mint with considerable autonomy. The city had leveraged its Adriatic commercial connections to maintain quasi-municipal coinage rights even as the Serbian Empire fragmented following the death of Stefan Dušan in 1355. Stephen Uroš V, the last Nemanjić emperor, held little effective control over peripheral cities like Cattaro, which makes the attribution of municipal issues to his reign largely a matter of dating convention rather than political subordination.