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.
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.