Follis - Gisulf II

Gisulf II was the last independent Prince of Salerno, a ruler whose reputation in contemporary sources — particularly from the Norman chronicler Amatus of Montecassino — is almost uniformly hostile. His principality fell in 1077 when Robert Guiscard besieged the city for eight months before Gisulf surrendered, effectively ending Lombard rule in southern Italy. Bronze folles of this reign are among the final autonomous issues of the Salernitan mint before it came under Norman control.