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2 Tari - Giovanni Paolo Lascaris Castellar
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1636-1643 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1530-1825) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the crowned quartered arms of Grand Master Giovanni Paolo Lascaris Castellar, combining the cross of the Order of St. John with the dynastic devices of the Lascaris family, including an eagle. The shield is surmounted by a Grand Master's crown. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery, separated from the central device by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ☩ ★ NON ★ AES ★ SED ★ FIDES ★ (Translation: Not money, but trust.) |
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Lascaris Castellar's tenure as Grand Master (1636–1657) coincided with the Order's sustained naval campaign against Ottoman shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. The 2 Tari was the everyday transactional coin of Valletta's markets and harbor — copper issues like this absorbed the bulk of daily commerce while silver funded the galleys. Mintage control on Maltese copper was notoriously loose in the seventeenth century, and KM#65 is known to exist with significant die variation in the cross spacing, likely reflecting multiple working die pairs cut by different hands.