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1 Follaro
| Issuer | Shkodër, City of |
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| Year | 1375-1400 |
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| Currency | Grosso |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal figure of St. Stefan (Saint Stephen) standing in the field, depicted in ecclesiastical robes with stylized Byzantine artistic conventions typical of late medieval Adriatic coinage. The saint is rendered in low relief consistent with hammered copper follari of the period. The abbreviated legend S-STE-FANE appears in uncial Latin characters, flanking the figure. The overall design reflects the civic and religious iconography associated with the municipality of Shkodër during the late 14th century. |
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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.