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Gigliato - Raymond Bérenger
| Issuer | Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), Rhodes |
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| Year | 1365-1374 |
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| Value | Gigliato (1) |
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| Obverse description | Grand Master Raymond Bérenger depicted in full figure, kneeling left in prayer before a tall patriarchal (double-barred) cross set on steps; the Grand Master wears a long mantle and is shown in a devotional posture. A shield bearing the arms of the Order is displayed to the right of the figure. The entire central design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend running around the outer border of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | +: F: RAImONDUS° BEREnGARII: D: GR: m |
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Raymond Bérenger served as Grand Master of the Hospitallers from 1365 to 1374, a period when Rhodes functioned as the Order's primary naval base and commercial hub in the eastern Mediterranean. The gigliato — a denomination borrowed directly from the Angevin coinage of Naples — had been adopted by the Hospitallers decades earlier precisely because it was already trusted currency across Levantine trade networks. Bérenger's issues continued that monetary policy without interruption.
Schlumberger's cataloguing of Hospitaller coinage remains the foundational reference for this series, though attributions within the gigliato sequence are complicated by the Order's habit of continuing predecessor dies after a change of Grand Master.