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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Italy| > ME73353
Normans, Southern Italy, Anonymous, Dukes of Apulia or Counts of Sicily & Calabria, c. 1060 - 1080 A.D.
|Italy|, |Normans,| |Southern| |Italy,| |Anonymous,| |Dukes| |of| |Apulia| |or| |Counts| |of| |Sicily| |&| |Calabria,| |c.| |1060| |-| |1080| |A.D.|, This coin is certainly imitative, as it weighs less then 1/3 the weight of the even the lightest official Class B Byzantine anonymous follis Forum has handled. 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.
ME73353. Bronze follaro, apparently unpublished, imitative of Class B Byzantine anonymous follis (SBCV 1823, Constantinople, 1028 - 1041); MEC Italy III -, MIR -, et al. -, F, uncertain Italian mint, weight 2.163g, maximum diameter 23.3mm, die axis 180o, c. 1060 - 1080 A.D.; obverse facing bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, holding book of Gospels; reverse IS - XS / bAS-ILE / bAS-ILE (Jesus Christ King of Kings, mostly off flan), Cross on three steps, dividing legend; from a California collector; SOLD




  






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