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| 正面描述 | Central field occupied by a quartered heraldic shield of the Grand Master Jean de Vallette, displaying the arms of the Order of St. John (a plain cross) impaled with the personal arms of Vallette, featuring a rampant lion and a chequered pattern in alternating quarters. The shield is rendered in bold relief characteristic of hammered coinage. A beaded or rope inner border frames the central device, with the circular legend surrounding the shield in the outer field. The lettering is incuse and irregular in spacing, as typical of mid-sixteenth-century Maltese hammered silver. |
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| 背面描述 | Central device depicts the head of John the Baptist presented facing slightly to the right, rendered on a stylized platter with flowing hair and beard spread dramatically around the face in a naturalistic yet symbolic manner, referencing the Order's patron saint. The head is set within a shallow inner circle, with the surrounding field plain. A circular Latin legend in raised letters runs along the outer border of the flan, separated from the central device by a plain inner ring. The overall style reflects Italian Renaissance influence on Maltese coinage of the sixteenth century. The strike is characteristic of hammered production, with some weakness at the flan edges. |
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Jean de Vallette served as Grand Master from 1557 until his death in 1568, but his tenure is defined almost entirely by a single event: the Great Siege of 1565, during which an Ottoman force estimated at 40,000 men failed to dislodge roughly 700 Knights and perhaps 8,000 Maltese soldiers and auxiliaries over four months of sustained assault. The Order emerged with its prestige at an absolute peak across Catholic Europe, and Vallette immediately began directing the construction of a fortified city on the Sciberras Peninsula — the city that would bear his name.
Coinage of this reign was struck on Rhodes-inherited dies and weight standards still in transition, as the Order had only held Malta since 1530 and its mint infrastructure remained rudimentary through much of Vallette's rule.