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20 Scudi - Emmanuel de Rohan
| Issuer | Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1778 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1530-1825) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | HOSPITALIS ET S. SEPULCHRI HIERUSAL. S.20 |
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Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc was elected Grand Master in 1775 and proved one of the most administratively capable leaders the Order had seen in generations — reorganizing its navy, reforming the legal code, and founding the Maltese public library. The KM#Pn8 designation identifies this as a pattern piece, meaning it never entered circulation; the 20 Scudi denomination in copper was almost certainly a struck trial to test the dies or gauge the viability of a higher-value copper coinage that was ultimately not pursued.
The Order lost Malta to Napoleon in 1798, just twenty years after this piece was struck.