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20 Scudi - Francisco Ximenez de Texada
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1773 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Francisco Ximenez de Texada served as Grand Master from 1773 until his death the following year — one of the shortest tenures in the Order's modern history. That brevity makes his coinage scarce across all denominations, but the 20 Scudi in particular was struck in small quantities even by the standards of Maltese grand masteral issues, which rarely approached the production volumes of contemporary sovereign mints.
By 1773 the Order was already in slow institutional decline, its naval power largely ceremonial and its finances strained. The French crown would suppress the Order's French langue just sixteen years later, and the islands themselves fell to Napoleon in 1798 without serious resistance.