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Auction: 16006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 2599

Italy, Salerno, Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria (1059-85), AE Follaro, 6.72g, crowned bust facing, holding double orb, rev. view of Salerno from the sea, vi[ctoria] in exergue (MEC 71-73), very fine

provenance
Purchased from Vecchi, July 1973
The ticket states 'overstruck on Constantine VII'.
MEC notes 'This is the most famous of Guiscard's follari, showing him crowned as a byzantine emperor, the model for the obverse being probably, as Grierson suggested, a histamenon of Nicephorus III. Grierson believed it to have been struck at the time of Guiscard's capture of Slaerno, but while it obviously celebrates this event, the evidence of overstrikes shows that it is not his earliest type and must be a little later in date.'

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Sold for
£380