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1 Tari - Pietro del Monte
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1570 |
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| Value | 1 Tari (1⁄12) |
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| Obverse description | The quartered shield of the Grand Master Pietro del Monte occupies the central field, displaying the arms of the Order of Saint John — a white eight-pointed cross on a plain ground — impaled with the personal arms of the Grand Master, all enclosed within a dotted inner circle. The heraldic composition is rendered in the angular, stylised manner typical of hammered coinage of the period. A circular Latin legend surrounds the shield, reading from a cross patée used as a stop. |
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| Reverse description | Two right hands clasped in a handshake — the traditional symbol of Fides (Faith or Pledge) — are depicted prominently in the central field, executed in low relief characteristic of hammered copper coinage. The date 1570 appears above the clasped hands in the upper field, with the denomination mark T and numeral 1 flanking a small star in the lower field. The entire design is encircled by a beaded inner border, within which runs the Latin motto legend. |
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Pietro del Monte Santa Maria served as Grand Master for just three years, from 1568 to 1572, dying in office before the Order had fully consolidated its position on Malta following the Great Siege of 1565. His coinage is consequently scarce across all denominations. The tari of this period circulated alongside a complex mix of Spanish, Sicilian, and North African currency on the island, as the Order had not yet established the monetary dominance it would achieve under later Grand Masters.