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1 Grano - Manuel Pinto de Fonseca
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1751 |
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| Weight | 1.82 g |
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| Reverse description | A boldly struck eight-pointed Maltese cross occupies the central field, its characteristic V-shaped indentations at each arm clearly defined. The four angles between the arms of the cross contain elements of the date, with the full year 1751 distributed in the quadrants. The circular legend IN NOC SIGNO MILITAMVS — 'In this sign we fight' — runs around the periphery between a beaded inner border and the milled rim, affirming the militant Christian ethos of the Order of St. John. |
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| Mintage | 1751 |
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Manuel Pinto de Fonseca served as Grand Master of the Order from 1741 until his death in 1773 — one of the longest tenures in the Order's modern history. By the mid-eighteenth century, the Knights' actual military function had largely dissolved, and the Maltese monetary system existed primarily to assert the Order's sovereign status rather than meet any pressing commercial need. Small copper issues like this one circulated alongside Sicilian and other Mediterranean coinage on the island, the Order's mint output never quite sufficient to dominate local exchange.