1 Follaro

Antivari — modern Bar, in Montenegro — was a coastal city contested between Serbian despots and the Venetian Republic through much of the fourteenth century. Venice secured firm control in 1443, which means this follaro belongs to the period of Serbian or locally autonomous civic administration, before Venetian monetary practice displaced indigenous coinage entirely. The follaro denomination itself derives from the Byzantine follis tradition that persisted along the eastern Adriatic long after it had vanished elsewhere.