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| 正面描述 | Central field occupied by the quartered coat of arms of Jean de Vallette, Grand Master of the Order of St. John, combining the eight-pointed cross of the Hospitallers with the Grand Master's personal heraldic charges, including a rampant lion and an angel. The shield is set within a plain inner circle. The surrounding legend, rendered in Gothic and Roman lettering, reads ☩ F · IOANNES DE VALLETE · M · HOS · H, identifying Fra' Jean de Vallette as Master of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem. The outer border is formed by a rope or cable pattern typical of Maltese hammered coinage of the sixteenth century. The die-work displays the characteristic irregularity of hand-struck production. |
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Jean de Vallette served as Grand Master during the Great Siege of 1565, when an Ottoman force estimated at 40,000 men failed to dislodge roughly 700 Knights and several thousand Maltese soldiers from the island. The siege's failure was a turning point in Ottoman westward expansion in the Mediterranean, and Vallette's name was given to the new fortified city begun immediately after — La Valletta, founded 1566.
Coinage struck under his mastership carries particular weight for collectors of the Order's series. The tari denomination was the standard fractional silver unit of the Hospitaller monetary system, derived from the earlier Sicilian tari.