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9 Tarì - Angelo
| Issuer | Sovereign Military Order of Malta |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Paschal lamb (Agnus Dei) is depicted standing to the left in high relief at center, nimbed with a halo and bearing a staff topped with a cross and a banner charged with the Cross of the Order. A beaded inner circle frames the central design. The denomination 9 TARI appears in the lower field within the beaded border. The surrounding Latin legend ECCE.AGNVS.DEI.QVI.TOLLIT.PECCATA.MVNDI, separated by a Maltese cross stop, encircles the composition. |
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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta occupies a peculiar position in numismatics: a non-territorial sovereign entity with full treaty relations and passport-issuing authority, yet no physical land to speak of since the loss of Malta to Napoleon in 1798. Its modern coinage program, launched in the 1960s, was intended partly to assert that ongoing sovereignty and partly to generate collector revenue. The 9 Tarì denomination deliberately revives the monetary unit used during the Order's rule of Malta from 1530 to 1798.
X#30 places this squarely in the Unusual World Coins classification — outside standard national coinage systems entirely.