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5 Grani - Emmanuel de Rohan
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1776-1790 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc, surmounted by the Grand Master's crown, with the eight-pointed Maltese cross appearing above. The escutcheon displays the quartered coat of arms of the Rohan family impaled with the cross of the Order of St. John. A palm frond appears to the left of the shield. The circular legend surrounding the device reads F. EMMANVEL DE ROHAN M., with a small star or ornament serving as a stop between legend elements. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc served as Grand Master from 1775 until his death in 1797, and it was under his administration that the Order produced its most sophisticated legal code — the Diritto Municipale di Malta of 1784, which remained in force well into the British period. The Order's mint on Malta was one of the last sovereign minting operations in the central Mediterranean before Napoleon's seizure of the island in 1798 ended eight centuries of Hospitaller independence.
The 5 Grani sat at the workhorse level of daily Maltese commerce, handled constantly by a population that mixed it freely with Sicilian and Spanish copper. Survivors with much remaining surface are genuinely scarce for exactly that reason.