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3 Tari - Antoine de Paule
| Issuer | Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1623-1635 |
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| Weight | 7.83 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large eight-pointed Maltese Cross dominates the central field, with the arms of the cross slightly flared and tapering toward the centre. The numerals '1', '6', '2' and '9' (or the relevant year date) are distributed one in each angle between the arms of the cross, recording the year of issue. A beaded inner border encloses the design, with the circumferential Latin motto legend running between the inner and outer toothed borders. The overall composition is bold and emblematic, consistent with the devotional and military character of the Order's coinage. |
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Antoine de Paule served as Grand Master of the Order from 1623 until his death in 1636, governing Malta during a period when Hospitaller corsairs remained one of the most active naval forces in the central Mediterranean. The Order operated its own mint at Valletta with considerable autonomy — a privilege jealously maintained as a mark of sovereign standing distinct from any secular European crown.
The tari was a unit inherited from Norman Sicily, and the three-tari denomination had a long regional circulation history predating the Knights' presence on Malta entirely.