Antivari — today Bar, in Montenegro — was a coastal Adriatic city contested throughout the fourteenth century between Serbian rulers and the Republic of Venice, which finally secured it in 1443. Coinage from this municipal issue reflects that precarious autonomy: Antivari operated with enough independence to strike its own copper, but the follaro itself was a denomination borrowed wholesale from the Norman and Angevin monetary tradition of southern Italy and the Adriatic littoral.
Dobrinić's cataloguing of this type as 1.2.3.3 places it within a tightly defined local sequence, though surviving specimens are rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.
Antivari — today Bar, in Montenegro — was a coastal Adriatic city contested throughout the fourteenth century between Serbian rulers and the Republic of Venice, which finally secured it in 1443. Coinage from this municipal issue reflects that precarious autonomy: Antivari operated with enough independence to strike its own copper, but the follaro itself was a denomination borrowed wholesale from the Norman and Angevin monetary tradition of southern Italy and the Adriatic littoral.
Dobrinić's cataloguing of this type as 1.2.3.3 places it within a tightly defined local sequence, though surviving specimens are rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.