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Tari - Juan de Homedes
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1536-1553 |
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| Reference(s) | Restelli#24, Schembri#1 |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩ , F , IO , OMEDES , M , HOS , HIERLM , |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Juan de Homedes served as Grand Master during one of the Order's most precarious decades — the Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522 and were still consolidating their hold on Malta, granted by Charles V in 1530, when these tari were struck. The coinage was issued under a sovereign military order that technically held the island as a fief of the Kingdom of Sicily, an arrangement that complicated the Order's claim to independent monetary authority throughout Homedes's tenure.
Homedes himself was a controversial figure, accused by contemporaries of mismanagement and favoritism during the 1551 Ottoman raid that saw Gozo's population taken into slavery.