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Tarì - Gisulf II
| Issuer | Salerno, Principality of |
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| Year | 1052-1077 |
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| Weight | 1.02 g |
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| Obverse description | Central pellet enclosed within a plain circle, itself surrounded by an inner band of pseudo-Kufic script imitating Fatimid formulae. An outer marginal legend in Latin gives the ruler's name and title. The overall composition is concentric and symmetrical, typical of Southern Italian tarì coinage reflecting the dual cultural influences of Norman-Lombard and Islamic artistic traditions. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic (Kufic), Latin |
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Gisulf II, the last Lombard prince of Salerno, struck these tarì during a reign defined by increasingly desperate political maneuvering against Norman encroachment in southern Italy. His principality fell in 1077 when Robert Guiscard besieged Salerno for eight months — one of the longer sieges of the Norman conquest — ending Lombard rule in the region permanently. Guiscard reportedly starved the city into submission. Gold issues from Gisulf's reign drew heavily on Fatimid monetary conventions, a pragmatic concession to the commercial realities of Mediterranean trade rather than any political alignment with Cairo.