Hello! This is my first post to this forum. I'm activate member on others coin forums. But I read this one also. I collect circulate coins with monarhs and presidents head in period 1801 - present. One head per country(colonies and territories included) or more(if is there a few kings/presidents) I buy this coin few days before with a bunch of medieval coins. It is 4 Tari 1590 Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. This is not my domain so I want to know approximate value because I want to sell this coin on ebay. There is little information about this coin on internet, there in not even a photo of them. This are informations: Soon after, his accession as Grandmaster, Hugues Verdalle (1582-95) found the Treasury of the Order almost bankrupt because the civil wars which had been raging in France[10] had prevented any money flowing to Malta from the French provinces. So it was decided in Council on 9th [p.62] July, 1590 to resort again to fiduciary coinage "per sovvenire alle necessità del Comun Tesoro." An amount of 6,000 scudi of copper was to be minted, but the Grandmaster was empowered to mint more than that amount if he deemed it necessary. [11] Verdalle, however, seems to have minted no more than 6,000 scudi of copper. [12] The Grandmaster's copper coins were the most varied to date, consisting not only of the fiduciary four and two tarì pieces, but also of carlini, cinquine, grani, three-piccioli pieces and piccioli. [13] American numismatic society have one but he is counterstamp. http://numismatics.org/collection/1934.33.227 and this is photo of this coin but counterstamp: http://www.vcoins.com/world/pspavlou/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=128 This is 2 tari piece from 1690, also only photo which I found: http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=433980 If someone know approximate value please let me know. Thanks.
I can't help on value, just a comment. I have seen that handshake on a tombstone. Hope you find out more.
Welcome to the CoinTalk forum. I do not have information about the coin you posted but perhaps some others here can help you. :welcome:
You have a nice coin, Sir. My congratulations. I like an Order's coins too. It's very rare and pretty nice coins.
