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4 Tari - Juan de Homedes
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1552 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ☩ ✦ F ✦ IO ✦ HOMEDES ✦ M ✦ HOS ✦ HIERLM ✦ (Translation: Fra Juan de Homedes, master of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem) |
| Reverse description | The Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) depicted nimbed, passant left with head turned to the right, bearing the banner of the Order of St. John on a staff. The design is enclosed within a double-lined inner circle, with the date 1552 appearing in the lower exergual area. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle, referencing the sacrificial lamb from the Gospel of John. |
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Juan de Homedes served as Grand Master from 1536 to 1553, presiding over the Order at a moment of acute Ottoman pressure following the loss of Rhodes in 1522 and the failed siege of Malta in 1551 — just one year before this coin was struck. The 4 Tari was the principal silver denomination of Hospitaller coinage throughout the sixteenth century, minted at Birgu, where the Order had established its operations after relocating from Rhodes.
Restelli #5 is among the scarcer documented varieties of Homedes's silver issues.