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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Italy| > ME68381
Normans, Southern Italy, Anonymous, Dukes of Apulia or Counts of Sicily & Calabria, c. 1081 - 1087 A.D.
|Italy|, |Normans,| |Southern| |Italy,| |Anonymous,| |Dukes| |of| |Apulia| |or| |Counts| |of| |Sicily| |&| |Calabria,| |c.| |1081| |-| |1087| |A.D.|, This coin is certainly imitative, as it weighs about 1/3 the normal weight of an official Class J Byzantine anonymous follis. Attribution to the Normans in Italy is based on the reputed find location and some similarity to other Byzantine imitatives issued by the Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily.
ME68381. Bronze follaro, apparently unpublished, imitative of Byzantine class J follis (SBCV 1900, Constantinople, 1081 - 1118); MEC Italy III -, Biaggi -, Wroth Western -, aF, on a very small thin flan compared to Byzantine proto-types, uncertain S. Italy mint, weight 2.200g, maximum diameter 21.0mm, die axis 180o, c. 1081 - 1087 A.D.; obverse bust of Christ facing, cross behind, wears pallium and colbium, raising right in benediction, Gospels in left, crescents above, IC - XC flanking; reverse Cross with globule and two pellets at each extremity, large crescent below, four globules around each surrounded by pellets; from an American collection; very rare; SOLD



  






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