Catalog
2 Tari - Claude de la Sengle
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1553-1557 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PARATE , VI AM , DOMIN I (Translation: Prepare the way of the Lord.) |
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Claude de la Sengle served as Grand Master for only four years before dying in office in 1557, making his coinage among the shorter-reigned issues in the Hospitaller series. The Order was still reeling from the 1522 loss of Rhodes and operating from Malta under an arrangement with Charles V that required annual payment of a single falcon to the Viceroy of Sicily — hardly the position of strength the Knights had once enjoyed.
The 2 Tari denomination occupied a workhorse role in Maltese commerce during this period, circulating alongside Spanish reales that dominated Mediterranean trade. Schembri's cataloguing of this type as #2 suggests it was among the earlier die sequences of the reign.