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1 Follaro
| Issuer | Antivari, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1400 |
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| Weight | 1.69 g |
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| Obverse description | Standing figure of Saint George in high relief at center, depicted frontally in long robes with a nimbus, raising one hand in a gesture of blessing or holding a staff; the surrounding circular legend reads J · S · G · - · CAŊTIVA-R, referencing the city of Antivari and the patron saint. The strike is irregular and characteristic of medieval hammered coinage, with weakness at the edges typical of 14th-century Adriatic civic issues. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Antivari — today Bar, in Montenegro — was a coastal Adriatic city contested throughout the fourteenth century between Serbian rulers and the Republic of Venice, which finally secured it in 1443. Coinage from this municipal issue reflects that precarious autonomy: Antivari operated with enough independence to strike its own copper, but the follaro itself was a denomination borrowed wholesale from the Norman and Angevin monetary tradition of southern Italy and the Adriatic littoral.
Dobrinić's cataloguing of this type as 1.2.3.3 places it within a tightly defined local sequence, though surviving specimens are rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.