Malta. Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Antoine de Paule. Grandmaster AD 1623-1636.
Tallero AR

41 mm, 27,12 g

MO ARG PRO C[O]N FOE BELG TRA, armored half-length figure of soldier standing left, head right, coat-of-arms below / [C]ONFIDENS DNO NON MOVETVR, lion rampant left, c/m: De Paule coat-of-arms within incuse.

nearly very fine

Cf. V.F. Denaro, "Dutch coins and Maltese countermarks," NC 1963, Fig. D; cf. Restelli & Sammut, pl. LXXXIX, 3.

Countermark of De Paule struck on reverse of a Harderwijk in Gelderland mint Leeuwendalder, of uncertain date.