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10 Grani - Angelo

Issuer Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Year 1986
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Technique Milled
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta occupies a peculiar position in numismatics: a non-territorial sovereign entity with no resident population, issuing coins that are legal tender by juridical fiction rather than practical circulation. The 1986 bronze issues were struck for collectors and diplomatic exchange, not commerce — no Maltese street vendor ever made change with one.

Angelo refers to the Maltese scudo monetary system the Order historically used before its expulsion from Malta by Napoleon in 1798, revived here as an act of institutional continuity across nearly two centuries of landlessness.

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