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5 Liri Knight of Malta
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Weight | 20.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MALTESE MARITIME HISTORY · KNIGHT OF MALTA 1929 · Lm 5 |
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Malta joined the United Nations in 1964 and spent much of the following two decades cultivating a policy of strict neutrality — a position enshrined in the 1974 constitution. The 1986 silver Liri issues were struck during Dom Mintoff's long political shadow, a period when Malta was simultaneously courting Libya, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe for economic leverage. The Knights of Malta reference is historically loaded: the Order had governed the islands from 1530 until Napoleon expelled them in 1798, and invoking that imagery in the mid-1980s carried deliberate weight about Maltese identity distinct from its colonial British past.
KM#84 was produced at the Royal Mint, Llantrisant.