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1 Follaro
| Issuer | Shkodër, City of |
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| Year | 1375-1400 |
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| Weight | 2.06 g |
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| Obverse lettering | S-STE-FANE |
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| Reverse lettering | ·C·SCV-TARIN-ENSIS |
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Shkodër's copper follaro issues of the late fourteenth century were struck during the city's period under Balšić dynastic control, before the Ottomans began their sustained pressure on the Albanian coastal towns. The Balšići used civic coinage partly as a signal of autonomous authority — a practical assertion at a moment when Venice, Serbia, and the Ottomans were all competing for influence over the eastern Adriatic hinterland.
The Dobrinic reference places this squarely among the rarest documented Albanian medieval copper types, with surviving examples numbering in the dozens rather than hundreds.