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4 Tarì - Emmanuel de Rohan
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1776-1779 |
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| Weight | 2.9 g |
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| Obverse description | The quartered arms of the Order of Malta and the de Rohan family displayed on the breast of a displayed eagle, whose spread wings flank the shield on either side. A princely crown surmounts the shield. The circular Latin legend reads F·EMMANUEL DE ROHAN M·M·H·S·S·, identifying Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc, arranged around the periphery within a toothed border. |
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| Reverse lettering | T.4 1779 |
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Emmanuel de Rohan-Pölzl was elected Grand Master in 1775 and proved one of the most administratively capable leaders the Order had seen in generations — he reformed the legal code, reorganized finances, and maintained Malta's precarious neutrality as the surrounding powers jostled ahead of the Revolutionary Wars. This 4 Tarì belongs to the earliest years of his reign, struck before the monetary reforms he would later introduce tightened the Order's coinage standards.
The Tarì was a unit peculiar to Maltese and southern Italian reckoning, with 20 Tarì to the Maltese scudo. By the late eighteenth century the Order's fiscal position depended heavily on its European commanderies — revenues increasingly difficult to collect as France, Spain, and Portugal pruned back the Knights' property rights within their borders.