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1 Follaro Type 2
| Issuer | Republic of Ragusa |
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| Year | 1436-1449 |
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| Currency | Tallero (1294-1803) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of a young male figure facing left, depicted in profile with naturalistic rendering characteristic of mid-15th century Ragusan coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central effigy, partially legible due to the irregular flan and typical wear associated with hammered copper coinage of the period. The field is flat and unadorned. The portrait style reflects the humanistic artistic influence prevalent in Dalmatian city-state coinages of the era. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ragusa — modern Dubrovnik — maintained formal independence from Venice after 1358 by shifting its allegiance to the Hungarian-Croatian crown, a calculated pivot that bought the city-state centuries of commercial autonomy. The follaro served the lowest tier of daily market transactions during a period when Ragusan merchants were aggressively expanding overland trade routes into the Serbian silver-mining interior, particularly around Novo Brdo. Small copper coinage was chronically short across the Adriatic in the mid-fifteenth century, making even these minor pieces functionally indispensable.