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Message:: [QUOTE="differential, post: 8133611, member: 120104"]Interesting how your coins dovetail with an interest of mine: St. John the Baptist. The Knights of Malta (official name: "Sovereign Military order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta") are over 900 years old and in recent times have morphed from a "military" order into one with extensive works of charity throughout the world, while still remaining a religious order. In Europe during WW II they even had a hospital train in Europe. During the past year many of their 85,000 or so "Maltesa" members have worked to provide help during the COVID pandemic. There's an excellent book, "Coins Minted by the Knights in Malta," by John A. Gatt. On these coins one can find other images of St. John the Baptist. I thought you might be interested in this as you mentioned St. John the Baptist is your namesake. He was mentioned frequently in the daily Mass readings of Advent. One notes the slightly different weights on the first two coins above, 3.56 g and 3.52 g. Your first coin in the posting is 3.43.[/QUOTE]