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1 Follaro
| Issuer | Antivari, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1400 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A large Gothic letter G dominates the central field, containing a six-pointed star composed of three pearls within its interior. Two additional stars flank the letter on either side. A tilde ornament appears above the G. The design is executed in a bold, simplified medieval style typical of Adriatic civic coinage of the 14th century. |
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| Reverse description | A large initial letter occupies the center of the field, surmounted by a tilde rendered in a distinctive W-shaped form. Two stars are positioned within or flanking the central device. The inscription, broken by stops, reads A-TI-BAR, representing an abbreviated form of the city name Antibarium (Antivari). The composition is characteristic of hammered civic coinage of the medieval Adriatic region. |
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Antivari — modern Bar, in Montenegro — operated as a semi-autonomous commune under varying degrees of Serbian and later Venetian pressure throughout the fourteenth century. The city struck its own copper coinage during this period of contested sovereignty, an unusual privilege for a town of its size on the eastern Adriatic coast. The follaro denomination itself was borrowed directly from southern Italian monetary tradition, reflecting Antivari's commercial orientation toward the Adriatic rather than the Balkan interior.
Dobrinić's reference remains the principal authority on medieval Dalmatian and eastern Adriatic municipal coinage, and this type is among the rarer attributions in that corpus.