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4 Liri St. Agatha's Tower
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#33 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBBLIKA · TA' · MALTA * (Translation: Republic of Malta) |
| Reverse description | A detailed frontal view of St. Agatha's Tower (also known as the Red Tower) at Ghajn Tuffieha, rendered with careful architectural precision showing its massive square bastioned walls, corner merlons, and rocky limestone promontory base surrounded by low vegetation. The date 1975 appears in the right field, while the denomination mark LM4 (Liri Maltin 4) is inscribed in large stylized characters along the lower portion of the field. |
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St. Agatha's Tower — known locally as Ix-Xatba l-Ħamra, the Red Tower — was built by the Knights of St. John between 1647 and 1649 to serve as a coastal signal relay between Fort St. Angelo and the fortifications on Gozo. Malta's Independence in 1964 triggered a deliberate program of commemorative issues meant to project national identity through coinage, and by 1975 the Central Bank was drawing on specifically Maltese architectural heritage rather than pan-Mediterranean imagery. The .987 fineness used here is notably purer than the .925 standard common to most contemporary silver commemoratives.