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1 Follaro
| Issuer | Shkodër, City of |
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| Year | 1375-1400 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of St. Stephen standing, nimbed and robed, holding a gospel book in both hands before his chest. The figure occupies the central field in a hieratic, Byzantine-influenced style typical of late medieval Adriatic coinage. The surrounding legend in uncial Latin characters reads .:ƧCV TAR-EИƧIƧ.:, a form of 'Scutarensis' referencing the city of Shkodër (Scutari). |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shkodër's copper follaro issues from the late fourteenth century were struck during the period when the city cycled through Balkan overlordship before falling definitively to Venetian control in 1396. The Venetians inherited a functioning municipal mint and largely continued local small-denomination production to keep markets liquid in the Albanian highlands.
Dobrinić's classification system for this type is granular for a reason — die combinations vary considerably across this series, and the 1.2.2.1 designation places this specimen within a documented obverse-reverse pairing rather than the broader type.