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1 Grosso - Balsa III
| Issuer | Antivari, City of |
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| Year | 1403-1421 |
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| Value | 1 Grosso |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | ·S LAVRE·-·NCIVS M· |
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Antivari — modern Bar, in Montenegro — operated as a semi-autonomous commune under nominal Venetian protection during the early fifteenth century, caught between Venetian commercial interests and the encroaching pressure of the Ottoman advance through the Balkans. Balsa III, the last ruler of the Balšić dynasty, issued coinage in his own name from the city until his death in 1421, after which Antivari passed definitively to Venice. The Dobrinić reference places this firmly in a small, well-documented regional series, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce given the brevity and instability of Balsa's tenure.