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1/2 Lira - Fabrizio of Carretto
| Issuer | Order of the Knights of St. John (Hospitallers), Rhodes |
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| Year | 1513-1521 |
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| Weight | 5.14 g |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield of arms set within a beaded inner circle, the dexter half bearing the barry-bendy arms of the Carretto family and the sinister half displaying the plain cross of the Order of St. John. The shield is surmounted by a decorative crown. A circumferential legend in Gothic uncial lettering surrounds the central device, separated from it by a plain raised border and an outer beaded rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Fabrizio del Carretto served as Grand Master from 1513 until his death in 1521, presiding over a Rhodes increasingly besieged by Ottoman pressure — Suleiman the Magnificent would finally expel the Knights just one year after this issue's production ended. The Hospitallers maintained their own mint on Rhodes throughout this period, a privilege of sovereignty they exercised aggressively in the waning years of their tenure on the island.
The Schlumberger reference places this among a small, well-documented series, but surviving examples attributable specifically to del Carretto's mastership remain scarce relative to earlier Grand Masters with longer tenures.