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Tarì - Gisulf II
| Issuer | Salerno, Principality of |
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| Year | 1052-1077 |
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| Value | 1 Tarì = 1/4 Solidus |
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| Obverse script | Arabic (Kufic), Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.