Catalog
1 Follaro
| Issuer | Shkodër, City of |
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| Year | 1375-1450 |
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| Value | 1 Follaro = 1⁄30 Grosso |
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| Obverse lettering | SCVTAREŊSIS |
| Reverse description | Heavily worn reverse depicting a partially legible design, with traces of a figural or architectural motif visible in the central field, consistent with a royal or civic emblem. The surrounding legend is fragmentary and largely illegible, with only the partial reading REX... surviving, suggesting a royal titular inscription. The crude, irregular flan and flat strike are typical of hammered copper follari of this period and region. The extremely limited survival of this type — only three examples known — accounts for the advanced wear and incomplete legibility of the reverse. |
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Shkodër's copper follari were issued during the city's prolonged contest between Venetian administration and Ottoman encroachment — Venice held Shkodër from 1396, and the town's municipal coinage reflects the administrative ambiguity of a frontier outpost trying to maintain commercial function under constant military pressure. The siege of 1478–1479 ended Venetian control permanently, making any issue from this series a product of that compressed and violent window.