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50 Euros The Baptism of Christ
| Issuer | Central Bank of Malta |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BAROQUE AND ROCOCO REPUBBLIKA TA MALTA 2018 |
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Malta's gold commemorative program has leaned heavily on Baroque religious art since the mid-2000s, and this 2018 issue draws from the island's extraordinary concentration of Caravaggio works — three of which remain in Valletta's St. John's Co-Cathedral and the Oratory adjacent to it. The specific depiction referenced here comes from a tradition of Counter-Reformation iconography that the Knights of St. John actively promoted as part of Malta's cultural identity after 1565.
KM#197 was struck in limited quantities by the Bavarian State Mint on behalf of the Central Bank of Malta, a long-standing production arrangement.