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5 Grani - Antoine de Paule
| Issuer | Order of Malta (Knights Hospitaller) |
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| Year | 1629 |
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| Weight | 1.53 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | F . ANTONIVS DE PAVLA . M . M . H . H (Translation: Fra Antoine De Paule, Grand Master Hospital Jerusalem) |
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Antoine de Paule served as Grand Master of the Order from 1623 until his death in 1636, a period during which the Knights were consolidating financial administration in Malta following decades of strain from maintaining their naval campaign against Ottoman and Barbary corsair fleets. The copper piccoli denominations issued under his rule — of which the 5 Grani belongs — were workhorses of local Maltese commerce, rarely leaving the island and circulating hard among a population that had little use for the Order's silver.
The 1629 dating places this piece early in the Order's more systematic copper coinage program of the 1620s. Gatt's cataloguing remains the definitive reference for Hospitaller copper; the X01 suffix in his notation indicates a primary die pairing.