3 Tari - Giovani Paolo Lascaris Castellar

Lascaris Castellar's fifteen-year reign as Grand Master was defined largely by the Order's mounting financial strain and its increasingly defensive posture in the Mediterranean. The 3 Tari was a workhorse denomination for the Order's Maltese coinage — neither prestige issue nor petty change, but the denomination that actually moved through local commerce. Silver issues of this period are frequently found with heavy contact marks and edge irregularities from the hand-struck production at the Valletta mint, where quality control was inconsistent at best.