See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

3 Tari - Gregorio Carafa

Issuer Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller)
Year 1680
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Round
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Central field features a large eight-pointed Maltese Cross in high relief, its points tapering elegantly outward with concave notches between each arm, characteristic of the Order's iconography. The date digits '1', '6', '8', '0' are distributed one in each quarter of the cross's field, recording the year of issue. A double beaded border encircles the central device, separating it from the surrounding Latin legend, which reads continuously around the periphery. The overall composition is bold and heraldically precise, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the Valletta Mint under Grand Master Carafa.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering ☩ SVB • HOC • SIGNO • MILITAMVS
(Translation: Under this sign we fight.)
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage Log in to see details
Additional information Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE