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10 Grani - Antoine de Paule
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1629 |
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| Weight | 2.41 g |
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| Obverse lettering | F·ANTONIVS DEPAVLA·M·M·H·H |
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| Mintage | 1629 |
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Antoine de Paule served as Grand Master from 1623 to 1636, a period when the Order's copper coinage was increasingly aimed at practical Mediterranean commerce rather than ceremonial use. The grani denominations of this era were workhorses of the Maltese local economy, circulating alongside Spanish colonial copper in an island dependent on both Hospitaller administration and Sicilian grain supplies.
KM#53 is occasionally found with significant flan irregularities — a known characteristic of the Valletta mint's copper production in the 1620s, where planchet preparation was inconsistent.