1154 AD - 1166 AD

Guglielmo I   Messina
 Re di Sicilia

Follaro AE 15
 SHH 229

229 Guglielmo I Messina Norman Naples & Sicily Follaro AE

Parameter
Obverse

Reverse

Notes
Reference
 0.81 g   13.8-15.9 mm   7:00 o'clock   F
REX // ·W· in linear circle; arabic inscription around: "duriba b Masīna sanat 550"
(minted in Messina in the year five hundred and fifty); outer border line.
Bust of the Virgin with Child, pellet between them; in left field [ΜΡ // ΘΥ] with overbars; double border of dots.
Mint of Messina. Scyphate.
MEC 14/III 286/289; Spahr 99; Thomsen 2463/2464; Varesi 33