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4 Tari - Gregorio Carafa
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1680-1685 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The severed head of St. John the Baptist rendered in high relief at the center of the coin, depicted with flowing hair and beard, set within an inner circle. The head is shown in a naturalistic Baroque style. A circular beaded border surrounds the design, with the devotional legend disposed around the outer field. |
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Gregorio Carafa della Roccella served as Grand Master from 1680 to 1690, and his coinage reflects the Order's sustained minting ambition during a decade when Hospitaller naval forces were still actively engaging Ottoman shipping in the eastern Mediterranean. The 4 Tari denomination was a workhouse unit of the Maltese monetary system, circulating alongside Spanish and Sicilian silver in a market that routinely absorbed foreign coin.
KM#113 is known with minor die variations across the emission period — not unusual given the hand-cut dies typical of the Valletta mint at this scale of production.