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3 Tari - Gregorio Carafa
| Issuer | Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1680 |
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Gregorio Carafa served as Grand Master of the Order from 1680 to 1690, and his early coinage coincides with the Order's intensifying naval campaign against Ottoman shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. The tari denomination was the workhorse of Maltese commercial exchange, circulating widely through the island's markets and among the crews of the Order's galleys — men paid in small silver who spent it fast.
KM#112 is not a rare type, but survivors with honest surfaces are harder to find than mintage logic would suggest. The Order's small-scale mint on Malta struck to order rather than continuous schedule, and many pieces saw heavy use before leaving the island.