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4 Tari - Filippo III
| Issuer | Sicily, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1609-1620 |
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| Currency | Tari (1060-1754) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and high-collared bust of Philip III facing right, wearing a ruff collar and ornate cuirass with decorative detail. The effigy is rendered in high relief with curled hair and a prominent profile. Four annulets appear below the bust in the field. The peripheral legend runs around the bust within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIP III D G |
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Philip III of Spain ruled Sicily as an absentee monarch, with day-to-day authority delegated to a viceroy in Palermo. The 4 Tari was the workhorse denomination of Sicilian commerce during this period, circulating alongside Spanish colonial silver in a Mediterranean economy still absorbing the aftershocks of Lepanto and chronic Ottoman pressure on grain routes. Philip's reign was marked by the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609 — a catastrophic demographic and agricultural disruption whose economic ripples reached Sicilian markets directly through disrupted trade networks.
MIR 345 encompasses multiple die varieties across the eleven-year span, and attribution to a specific year of issue is rarely possible without archival cross-reference.