Watch List notes:

MALTA, Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Jean-Paul Lascaris Castellar. Grandmaster, 1636-1657. Æ 4 Tarì (34mm, 9.06 g, 3h). Valletta mint. Dated 1643. Crowned coat-of-arms; sun to left, moon to right / Clasped hands within border of clouds; double-headed eagle above. Countermarks: Double headed eagle within circle (Edict of 28 May 1646); head of St. John the Baptist within oval (Edict of 19 April 1662). Gatt 14-4T-??X108 (unlisted obverse die); cf. Restelli & Sammut 58-9; Schembri 5; KM 68. For countermarks: Gatt p. xix. Brown surfaces. VF.

From the El Medina Collection.