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1 Tari - Giovanni Paolo Lascaris Castellar
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1639 |
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| Weight | 3.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the quartered shield of the Order of Malta and the Lascaris Castellar family arms, surmounted by a Grand Master's crown. The escutcheon displays the characteristic chequerboard quarters of the Lascaris family impaled with the plain cross of the Order of St. John. The shield is set within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin circular legend of the Grand Master's name and title running along the periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Lascaris Castellar's rule as Grand Master, from 1636 to 1657, coincided with the Order's sustained naval campaign against Ottoman shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. The tari was the Order's workhorse denomination — heavily used in commercial transactions at Valletta's markets and among the corsair crews who operated under the Order's flag of war. Coinage from this reign circulated well beyond Malta itself, turning up in Sicilian and Levantine trade contexts well into the eighteenth century.