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<p>[QUOTE="mkivtt, post: 5584396, member: 42887"]Malta, Order of St. John silver Proof Zecchino 1965 PR68 Ultra Cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picked this up on the cheap recently. It commemorates a very significant battle - over the course of an almost 4-month siege in 1665, the massively outnumbered Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in Malta held off the full might of the Ottoman empire, possibly saving Italy (and Europe) from a subsequent invasion by the Muslims.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta</a></p><p><a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/history-the-siege-of-malta.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/history-the-siege-of-malta.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/history-the-siege-of-malta.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or, if you prefer books, this is an excellent read: "Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World" by Roger Crowley.[ATTACH=full]1241765[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1241766[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mkivtt, post: 5584396, member: 42887"]Malta, Order of St. John silver Proof Zecchino 1965 PR68 Ultra Cameo. Picked this up on the cheap recently. It commemorates a very significant battle - over the course of an almost 4-month siege in 1665, the massively outnumbered Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in Malta held off the full might of the Ottoman empire, possibly saving Italy (and Europe) from a subsequent invasion by the Muslims. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta[/URL] [URL]https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/history-the-siege-of-malta.html[/URL] Or, if you prefer books, this is an excellent read: "Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World" by Roger Crowley.[ATTACH=full]1241765[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1241766[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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