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5 Liri Mattia Preti
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1999 - - 5,000 |
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Mattia Preti, the Calabrian-born Baroque painter who settled permanently in Malta in 1661, spent the last four decades of his life on the island and produced some of the most significant works in St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta. The Central Bank of Malta issued this coin as part of a series honoring figures central to Maltese cultural heritage — Preti's adoption by the Knights of St. John, who granted him the habit of the Order, cemented his place in Maltese identity despite his Italian birth.
The .925 silver specification ties this directly to the long-running Maltese collector series struck at the Royal Mint, Llantrisant, through the late 1990s.