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15 Tarì - Manuel Pinto de Fonseca
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1757-1759 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1530-1825) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Manuel Pinto de Fonseca served as Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1741 until his death in 1773 — one of the longest tenures in the Order's modern history. By the 1750s, the Order's financial position was increasingly precarious, with revenues from European commanderies shrinking as Enlightenment-era governments grew hostile to the privileges of religious military orders. The 15 Tarì occupied a practical middle denomination in Malta's complex monetary system, where the Tarì itself was a unit inherited from the earlier Norman and Aragonese administrations of Sicily.
The narrow two-year window for this particular issue, 1757–1759, likely reflects a specific recoinage or bullion contract rather than continuous production across Pinto's reign.