Asper - James of Milly

James of Milly served as Grand Master of the Hospitallers at Rhodes during a period of acute Ottoman pressure — Constantinople had fallen in 1453, the year before his tenure began, and the Order was scrambling to reinforce its naval and financial position. These aspers circulated within a militarized economy that depended on ransoms, shipping tolls, and papal subsidy as much as conventional trade.

Milly's reign lasted only seven years before his death in 1461, the same year the Ottoman conquest of Trebizond extinguished the last remnant of Byzantine imperial succession.