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1/2 Lira - Fabrizio of Carretto

Issuer Order of the Knights of St. John (Hospitallers), Rhodes
Year 1513-1521
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Obverse lettering ✠ F · FABRICII · DE · CARRETTO · MAGN · M · R
(Translation: Brother Fabrizio of Carretto, Grand Master of Rhodes)
Reverse description Full-length standing figure of the nimbate St. John the Baptist, shown facing, wearing a hair shirt, holding the Agnus Dei (a lamb) in his raised left arm while pointing toward it with his right hand; a processional banner rises over his left shoulder. The field is divided by the saint's figure, with initials flanking the central image. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with a circumferential legend in Gothic uncial lettering running between the inner border and the outer beaded rim.
Reverse script Latin (uncial)
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