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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Two years ago I looked them up Their country was one building in Rome but they still retained the right to emit legal tender coins  |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Edited by ageka
07/05/2007 12:09 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I wish I could post pictures side by side like SAP, but here's the best I can do to show my only Order of Malta coin.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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My bad. This is hoe the reverse looks right side up:  |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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@ageka: Careful. Those "Knights of Malta" do not have anything to do with the order (S.M.O.M.) that Sap wrote about. The Schön catalog of world coins does list the SMOM pieces (denominated in Grani, Tarì and Scudi) but has a warning regarding those pseudo-orders. Of course your 1 oz gold piece remains a 1 oz gold piece no matter who had it made.  Thanks to all three of you for showing these nice pieces! Christian Edited by chrisild
07/05/2007 1:47 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Chrisild
If I put the Italian Sovrano Ospedaliero ordine di Malta into the internet they go to the official site of the Knights
They are not in the Krause either
However the coin certificate says it was minted in Germany by Mayer's with the official 5000 Lire denomination what only Italy or Malta can use
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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In the old edition off 2001 The order of Malta is still being published in Krause Mishler. I think Krause have transported the order of Malta to the Book of Krause Unusual World Coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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with the official 5000 Lire denomination what only Italy or Malta can use
That is another odd thing. The plural of the Italian lira was "lire", the plural of the Maltese lira is "liri". This gold piece says "liras", however - not Italian, not Maltese, and certainly not the name of a SMOM "currency" unit ... Christian |
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  Australia
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Chrisild and ageka: that's one of the drawbacks of being diplomatically challenged: anyone can come along and make coins "in their name", and there's not much they can do about it. The rest of the world doesn't recognize their coins as "legal tender", so making false ones is perfectly legal.
Other unrecognised states have this same problem. For example, not all coins issued in the name of "Hutt River Province" or the "Principality of Sealand" were actually authorized by those "governments". It doesn't surprise me that the SMOM suffers the same fate.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
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It's some interesting facts, thank you for the info :)
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France
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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My coin is from the Champions of Peace series It does not say who authorised the coin only that the private german mint limited production to 10 000 coins Since it has a value technically it should be a coin and not a medal Not that I care very much because it is one of my favourites Edited because pic did not show ( I am so clumsy )  Edited by ageka
07/06/2007 08:10 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Someplace in my collection I have a proof set from one of the "Orders". St. John of Malta. I got it from the Franklin mint in the mid 1960s. It came in a box and each of 4 coins was in a plastic holder. It was one of those "limited editions". I was on a mailing list and bought a few of their items. Poor investment but interesting "Medalic Coinage". Some had mintages of 1000 coins or less. I will have to check to see if my $30 investment has made me a millionaire.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This was my first Darkside purchase. I was, and still am totally fascinated by this coin. I bought it's companion coin and the mint holder a couple of years later.  |
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Israel
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First of all I think you all might be interested in this site of the Sovereign Order of Malta with a small history of their coin making. http://intranet.fao.org/searchframe..._type=googleYou might also be interested that in the GoldQuest Champions of Peace series is a gold coin from the Order of Malta. It is a 5000 Liras coin depicting Mother Teresa with a slogan Mother Teresa- Fight Hunger to reduce poverty. It was issued in 2001 and endorsed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Unfortunately I do not have my copy any longer but I will try to find a photo. Harold |
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