Catalog
2 Tari - Juan de Homedes
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1540-1553 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩ ✦ F ✦ IO ✦ HOMEDES ✦ M ✦ HOS ✦ HIERLM (Translation: Fra Juan de Homedes, master of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Juan de Homedes served as Grand Master from 1536 to 1553, presiding over the Order during its difficult early decades on Malta after the loss of Rhodes in 1522. The 2 Tari belongs to a series of small silver issues the Order struck to maintain a functioning local economy on the island — coinage that doubled as an assertion of sovereign jurisdiction over territory granted by Charles V under highly conditional terms.
The Restelli reference range spanning types 12–21 reflects genuine die variation across the reign rather than a single unified type.