Catalog
1 Follaro
| Issuer | Antivari, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1400 |
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| Currency | Grosso |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a stylized letter or monogram, possibly a gothic or uncial character, flanked by subsidiary devices and set above a small star or cross at the base. A border of pellets or beading encircles the central device, a common decorative motif in medieval Dalmatian and Adriatic coinage. The Latin legend referencing the city name is distributed around the periphery in crude capital letters. The design is struck on a rough, irregular copper flan with visible surface porosity. The overall composition is consistent with municipal follaro issues of the 14th-century Adriatic region. |
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| Mint | Antivari Mint |
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Antivari — today's Bar, in Montenegro — operated as a semi-autonomous commune under Venetian and later Serbian influence throughout the fourteenth century, and its civic coinage is among the rarest products of the eastern Adriatic medieval mints. The follaro denomination itself was a base copper issue circulating at the bottom of the monetary hierarchy, used for petty transactions in port markets where Venetian grossi and Serbian dinars were too valuable for small exchange.
Dobrinić's cataloguing of this type remains the primary reference, reflecting how little documentary evidence survives from the Antivari mint itself.