Catalog
3 Tari - Pietro del Monte
| Issuer | Order of St. John (Knights of Malta) |
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| Year | 1568-1572 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1530-1825) |
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| Reverse description | A large eight-pointed Maltese cross occupies the entire central field, with deeply incised, arrow-shaped limbs tapering toward the centre, characteristic of the hammered coinage of the Order of St. John. A beaded inner border encircles the cross, with the Latin motto legend arranged around the periphery. The coin shows typical flan irregularity and surface texture consistent with mid-sixteenth-century hammered silver production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pietro del Monte Santa Maria served as Grand Master from 1568 to 1572, a tenure defined almost entirely by the aftermath of the Great Siege of 1565. The Order was rebuilding Valletta from the ground up — Laparelli's fortifications were still under construction when this coin was in circulation — and the financial demands on the treasury were enormous. Silver coinage of this period functioned as much as an instrument of institutional credibility as it did exchange, projecting the Order's continued authority over the island to European courts still watching closely after the Ottoman assault.