4 Tarì - Emmanuel de Rohan

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.