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Help Identifying This Coin - Maltese?

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 Posted 03/14/2014  10:13 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Dave The Hat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi everybody,

Found a couple of older coins in my grandfathers collection that I can find absolutely no information on.

This one was wrapped up in an old piece of paper, and all I can make out is the words 'Maltese' and "200 years old" and then something about an "order".

Is it even a coin?

Only these symbols on one side, the other side is blank

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 Posted 03/14/2014  10:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dave The Hat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is the second coin.

I apologise I can not get any clearer picture than this, it is such a small coin and quite faded.

It was wrapped up in a piece of paper also and all I can make out is "1829"....i think I can read the words "German" on the paper and "half a farthing" though not 100% certain.

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 Posted 03/14/2014  12:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add philadelphian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The "order" is the Order of Malta, that countermarked its copper. Yours has the marks of the Grand Masters Emmanuel Pinto and Emmanuel de Rohan:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jagatt...e-of-KOM.htm
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03/14/2014 12:31 pm
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 Posted 03/14/2014  12:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add philadelphian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
And does anyone else see a off center strike of an Ottoman tughra in the first pic of the second coin? Like this 10 para of Mustafa III?


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 Posted 03/14/2014  12:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dave The Hat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Philadlephian you're a fountain of knowledge! It was very interesting reading about the Maltese coin. Do you think it has any value?
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