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1 Follaro Autonomous coinage
| Issuer | Dulcigno, City of |
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| Year | 1300-1399 |
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| Weight | 2.51 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a lion passant or rampant in profile, a common heraldic device employed on autonomous communal coinage of Adriatic and Dalmatian city-states during the 14th century. The design is struck on an irregular, roughly shaped copper flan with visible die weakness and surface corrosion consistent with the age and composition of the issue. The lion motif is rendered in a crude but recognizable manner, consistent with the limited die-cutting resources of a small municipal mint. A circular legend or decorative border appears to surround the device, though details are largely illegible due to wear. The reverse composition as a whole reflects the heraldic municipal imagery characteristic of autonomous Dulcigno follaro coinage. |
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Dulcigno — modern Ulcinj in Montenegro — operated as a semi-autonomous commune under loose Angevin suzerainty through much of the 14th century, issuing its own small copper coinage as a practical assertion of local economic control. The follaro denomination was the workhorse of Adriatic coastal trade at this scale, circulating alongside Venetian and Serbian issues in markets where silver was too valuable for small transactions.
Dobrinić's attribution places this piece within a tightly defined local series. Few Albanian and Dalmatian coastal communes of this period produced documented copper issues, making Dulcigno's coinage unusually significant for regional numismatic study.