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1 Zecchino
| Issuer | Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Diameter | 38 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A draped armoured bust of Jean de la Valette, Grand Master of the Order of Saint John, faces slightly to the right, depicted wearing plate armour with a ruffled collar. The dates 1565 and 1965 appear to the left of the bust, marking the quadricentennial of the Great Siege of Malta, while the denomination 1 Z. is inscribed to the right. A beaded inner border surrounds the central design, and the circular legend QUADRICENTENNIAL OF THE GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA runs around the full periphery, separated by a Maltese cross star. The identification JEAN DE LA VALETTE, G.M. is inscribed in the lower portion of the legend. |
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The Sovereign Order of Malta — formally the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta — has issued coins since losing physical sovereignty over Malta to Napoleon in 1798, operating today as a sovereign entity without territory from its headquarters in Rome. Its numismatic issues are legally valid but produced almost entirely for collectors; none circulate in any conventional sense. The zecchino denomination is a deliberate historical callback to the gold sequins struck by the Order during its centuries of rule over Rhodes and Malta.
This 1965 silver-clad issue in the zecchino series falls squarely within the Order's mid-century collector coinage program, catalogued in Krause's unusual X# sequence reserved for non-circulating issues of non-standard jurisdictions.