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1 Carlino - Jean de Vallette
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1566 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩ NON AES SED FIDES · 1566 · VALLETE M X (Translation: Not money, but trust) |
| Reverse description | The Paschal Lamb (Agnus Dei), nimbate and passant, advances to the left while turning its head to look back over its right shoulder; it supports a long-staffed banner or vexillum with its right foreleg. The device is set within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding Latin legend divided by a cross and stops. The image is rendered in a bold, somewhat naïve relief style consistent with hammered copper coinage of the Knights of St. John in the mid-sixteenth century. |
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Jean de Vallette was Grand Master when the Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent laid siege to Malta in May 1565 — roughly 40,000 troops against a garrison of perhaps 6,000. The Knights held. The following year, flush with prestige and fresh donations from Catholic Europe, de Vallette began construction of the new fortified city that still bears his name and struck new coinage to assert the Order's continued authority over the island.
Restelli 119 is among the copper issues of this immediate post-siege period, produced in the window between the Ottoman withdrawal and de Vallette's death in 1568.