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1 Carlino - Ramon Perellos y Roccaful
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1697-1720 |
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| Value | 10 Grani (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield bearing the crowned personal arms of Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful, with the characteristic cross of the Order of Saint John incorporated into the composition. The shield is surmounted by a grand master's crown. The surrounding legend, reading clockwise in Latin, identifies the issuing authority. The coin is struck in the hammered tradition, with characteristic uneven flan surfaces typical of early eighteenth-century Maltese coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ramon Perellos y Roccaful served as Grand Master from 1697 to 1720, one of the longer tenures of the period, during which the Order maintained its precarious position as a naval power operating from Malta while the Ottoman threat had largely shifted from existential to chronic. The carlino was a small fractional silver denomination with roots in southern Italian monetary systems, carried into Hospitaller coinage through the Order's long administrative entanglement with Neapolitan and Aragonese monetary convention.
Perellos was a Spaniard — unusual at a time when French candidates increasingly dominated Grand Mastership elections — and his reign saw significant diplomatic friction with Louis XIV over the Order's neutrality obligations.