Balša III ruled Zeta under persistent Ottoman pressure, spending much of his reign maneuvering between submission and resistance before finally ceding Shkodër to Venice in 1420, just a year before his death. This grosso was struck during that unstable tenure — a small Adriatic principality trying to maintain the apparatus of sovereignty, coinage included, while its territory contracted around it.
The Jovanović references place this among the better-documented Zetan types, though die studies for this series remain thin compared to contemporary Ragusan or Venetian issues.
Balša III ruled Zeta under persistent Ottoman pressure, spending much of his reign maneuvering between submission and resistance before finally ceding Shkodër to Venice in 1420, just a year before his death. This grosso was struck during that unstable tenure — a small Adriatic principality trying to maintain the apparatus of sovereignty, coinage included, while its territory contracted around it.
The Jovanović references place this among the better-documented Zetan types, though die studies for this series remain thin compared to contemporary Ragusan or Venetian issues.