Francisco Ximenez de Texada served as Grand Master of the Order from 1773 to 1775 — one of the shortest reigns in the late Hospitaller period — dying in office before completing his third year. The Order's Maltese mint was by this point striking coins as much for prestige as for commerce, since Spanish and Portuguese silver had long dominated everyday circulation on the island.
KM#285 is among the scarcer issues of the late Hospitaller sequence, a direct consequence of the abbreviated reign.
Francisco Ximenez de Texada served as Grand Master of the Order from 1773 to 1775 — one of the shortest reigns in the late Hospitaller period — dying in office before completing his third year. The Order's Maltese mint was by this point striking coins as much for prestige as for commerce, since Spanish and Portuguese silver had long dominated everyday circulation on the island.
KM#285 is among the scarcer issues of the late Hospitaller sequence, a direct consequence of the abbreviated reign.