1 Follis - Sergio I

Obverse description	Three-quarter length frontal effigy of Duke Sergio I, depicted in Byzantine imperial style, wearing the loros and a crown or close-fitting headdress. The duke holds a scepter in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left hand, emblems of sovereign authority. The figure is rendered in the flat, stylized manner characteristic of southern Italian hammered coinage of the mid-ninth century, with bold facial features and schematic drapery visible on the flan. A partial inscription or decorative element appears to either side of the figure in the field.
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Reverse description	Frontal bust of Saint Januarius (San Gennaro), patron saint of Naples, rendered in a hieratic Byzantine style with a nimbus encircling the head. The saint is depicted facing, with schematic facial features typical of ninth-century southern Italian ecclesiastical coinage. The abbreviated Latin inscription SCS IAN flanks or surrounds the bust, identifying the subject as Sanctus Ianuarius. The design is struck on an irregular flan with weak areas consistent with hand-hammered production of the period.
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Reverse lettering	SCS IAN (Translation: Saint Januarius (San Gennaro))
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