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15 Tarì - Manuel Pinto de Fonseca
| Issuer | Order of St. John (Knights of Malta) |
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| Year | 1756-1759 |
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| Weight | 14.4 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Manuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master from 1741 until his death in 1773, governed Malta at a moment of acute tension between the Order and the Papacy over jurisdictional privileges — a dispute that consumed much of his long administration. His coinage program was among the most prolific in the Order's history, partly a deliberate projection of institutional authority at a time when that authority was being challenged from Rome.
The 15 tarì denomination corresponds to half a scudo, a unit deeply embedded in the Order's internal fiscal accounting for hospitaller operations and naval provisioning at Valletta.