Catalog
Tarì - Gisulf I
| Issuer | Principality of Salerno |
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| Year | 946-973 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله ، محمد هو رسول الله وعلي هو أفضل وكلاء الله وخير أحسن الرسل (Translation: No god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God and Ali is the most excellent of God's agents and the vizier of the best of the messengers.) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic (Kufic) |
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Gisulf I ruled Salerno during a period when the principality was caught between Byzantine suzerainty and the growing pressure of Arab commercial networks in the Tyrrhenian. The tarì itself was a direct imitation of the Fatimid quarter-dinar, adopted by southern Italian mints because Arab gold had become the default trading currency across the region — refusing to mint compatible coinage was simply bad economics.
The Salernitan series remains poorly documented in hoards, making die linkage studies difficult.