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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 4859378, member: 74712&quot;]The Travaini book can be purchased from numismatica ars classica <a href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/publications/lucia-travaini-la-monetazione-nellitalia-normanna/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/publications/lucia-travaini-la-monetazione-nellitalia-normanna/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.&nbsp; I still need to order a copy...</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought one of these from FORVM, and was told that the attribution to the Normans because of the find spot (vaguely given as ‘southern Italy’), and of course the time period of the coins being imitated.&nbsp; But I’ve always thought that we need to be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity collecting ancient and medieval coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1173350[/ATTACH] </p><p>Norman Italy - Apulia?</p><p>Roger Borsa, r. 1085-1111 (?)</p><p>AE Follis, 19.08 mm x 2.2 grams</p><p>Obv.: Bust of Christ facing, cross behind, wearing pallium and Colvin , raising right hand in benediction, Gospels in left, crescent above, IC - XC flanking</p><p>Rev.: Cross with globule and two pellets at each extremity, large crescent below, four globules around each surrounded by pellets</p><p>Note: Imitative of a Byzantine Anonymous Follis, Class J.&nbsp; Found in Southern Italy.&nbsp; It cannot be earlier than 1085, but my attribution to Roger Borsa in Apulia is due to coins of a similar weight and size from this time and region[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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