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1 Tari - Carlo V
| Issuer | Kingdom of Sicily |
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| Year | 1538-1539 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carlo V — Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily by inheritance through his maternal grandmother Isabella of Castile — rarely set foot in Sicily yet exercised tight fiscal control over the island's mint at Palermo. The tari denomination itself was an Arabic survival, the name derived from the Islamic tārī coinage that had circulated in Norman Sicily four centuries earlier. By 1538, the mint was operating under strict viceregal oversight, with production tied closely to military financing demands as Carlo pressed campaigns against Ottoman expansion in the central Mediterranean — Barbarossa had sacked Mahdia the previous year.