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1 Carlino - Nicolas Cotoner
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1663-1680 |
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| Value | 10 Grani (1⁄24) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | S • IOAN • BAP • ORA • PRONOB (Translation: Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.) |
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Nicolas Cotoner served as Grand Master from 1663 to 1680, a tenure defined largely by the massive fortification program that produced the Cottonera Lines — a vast defensive perimeter around the Three Cities of Malta, funded in part by Cotoner's personal fortune. The Order's silver coinage of this period reflects a functioning if modest monetary system maintained on the island despite chronic financial strain from ongoing conflict with Ottoman forces in the eastern Mediterranean.
The carlino denomination traces to southern Italian monetary tradition inherited through the Order's long administrative ties to the Kingdom of Naples.