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4 Tari - Antonio Manoel de Vilhena
| Issuer | Sovereign Military Order of Malta |
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| Year | 1722-1728 |
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| Diameter | 29 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | DEVILHENA F·D·AN:MANOEL |
| Reverse description | At center, the ornate quartered shield of the Order of Malta, displaying the cross of the Hospitallers alongside the personal arms of Grand Master de Vilhena, surmounted by a grand master's crown with elaborate Baroque cartouche surrounds and scrollwork. The denomination numeral 4 appears to the right of the shield and the letter T (for Tari) to the left, flanking the arms. The circumscribed Latin legend M·M·HOSPITALIS ET S·S·HIERVSA: runs around the periphery, with the date 1724 integrated into the legend, all within a reeded border. |
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Antonio Manoel de Vilhena served as Grand Master from 1722 to 1736, and his tenure is better remembered for fortification than finance — he commissioned the fortified town of Vilhena (now Mdina's main gate complex) and Fort Manoel on the Marsamxett harbour. The 4 Tari occupied a mid-denomination role in the Order's bimetallic coinage system, where the Tari was subdivided from the Scudo, a monetary structure the Knights had maintained through successive Grand Masterships since the sixteenth century.
The KM#170 attribution places this within a short striking window of six years, after which die revisions or administrative changes produced distinct successor types under the same reign.