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5 Grani - Emmanuel de Rohan
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights of St. John) |
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| Year | 1776-1790 |
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| Value | 5 Grani (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse lettering | F. EMMANVEL DE ROHAN M. |
| Reverse description | Two right hands clasped in a handshake (dextrarum iunctio) depicted at center, symbolizing fidelity and trust, with the date 1790 arched above and the Roman numeral V denoting the denomination below. The circular legend NON AES SED FIDES (Not money but faith) surrounds the central device, separated by small ornamental stars. The coin exhibits a milled or grained border around the rim. |
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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.