1 Follaro

Drivast — known today as Drisht, in northern Albania — was a fortified hilltop commune that passed between Serbian, Venetian, and Albanian hands repeatedly across the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Venice held it for stretches during the 1400s as part of its Adriatic buffer strategy against Ottoman expansion, and local coinage like this follaro served the immediate trading needs of a town whose political allegiance shifted too frequently for larger monetary systems to take hold.

The follaro denomination itself descends from the Byzantine follis tradition, adapted across the medieval Adriatic littoral into small fiduciary bronze for market use. Dobrinić's reference remains the primary catalog authority for this material.