1 Follaro

Svač (Suaci, modern Shas in Albania) was a fortified episcopal city on the Adriatic coast that functioned as a semi-autonomous commune under intermittent Venetian and Serbian influence throughout the fourteenth century. By the 1370s the city was in accelerating decline — repeated Ottoman raids had devastated the surrounding territory, and its population was contracting sharply. That this copper follaro was struck at all during this period suggests the commune maintained enough commercial infrastructure to warrant a local fiduciary coinage, however briefly.

The city was effectively abandoned by the early fifteenth century. This issue likely represents one of the final acts of municipal autonomy before Svač ceased to function as a populated center entirely.