- Object type
- Coins
- Date
- 1629
- Subject(s)
- Knights of Malta
- Associated person
- Antoine de Paule (1551 - 1636)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: F ANTON[IVS] DE PAVLA.M.M.H.H.+
reverse: .NON.AES.SED.FIDES.+ / 1629 / X (NOT MONEY BUT FAITH / 1629 / X)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 22.36mm
Weight: 2.75g - Materials and technique
- Copper, struck
- Production place
- Malta
- Related place(s)
- Malta
- Credit line
- Photographed with the support of James Drabble MStJ and Clare Drabble, 2025
- Catalogue number
- M13.4
10 Grani of Grand Master Antoine de Paule
The inscription on this coin, which reads ‘Not money but faith’ makes it explicit that this coin represents value, rather than holding it. For many centuries coins had been worth the value of the metals they were made of, but this coin was given in faith, and on an agreed understanding of the value it represented.