4 Tari - Giovani Paolo Lascaris Castellar Fiduciary
Features
| Issuer |
Malta
 |
|---|---|
| Grandmaster |
Order of Hospitallers › Giovani Paolo Lascaris Castellar (1636-1657)
|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Official necessity coins |
| Years | 1636-1647 |
| Value | 4 Tari (⅓) |
| Currency | Scudo (1530-1825) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Shape | Round |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 293987 |
| References | KM# 68 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes). |
Obverse
Crowned arms of Lascaris, dividing sun at left and moon at right.
Script: Latin
Lettering: ☩ F • IO : PAVLVS • LASCARIS • CASTELLAR • M • M • H • H •
Translation: Fra Giovani Paolo Lascaris Castellar, Grand master of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem.
Reverse
Two clasped hands, date above, value below.
Script: Latin
Lettering: ☩ • NON ☩ AES ☩ SED ☩ FIDES •
Translation: Not money, but trust.
Comments
Fiduciary Coins of Malta
In 1567, when Jean De Valette was Grand Master of the order, he was building the new city of Valletta (Malta’s Capital) and it was clear that the treasury of the state wasn’t going to be able to afford building this city. Thus, he employed the use of Fiduciary coins. These were pieces made out of copper instead of the usual silver and were used to pay workers, with the promise that once the precious metal was back in high enough numbers, the fiduciaries could be exchanged. There was 2 denominations issued by 4 different Grandmasters and these are as follows :-
Denominations -
2 Tari
4 Tari
Grand Masters that issued Fiduciary Coins :-
Jean De La Vallette Parisot
Pietro Del Monte
Hugues Loubenx de Verdala
Giovani Paolo Lascaris Castellar
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| 1647 | |||||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 100
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