We now come to the medal for 1999, the last in the RM Centenary Series of medals. The medal marks the 900th anniversary of The Order of St. Johns. The design is by the RM engraver Mathew Bonaccorsi and depicts a representation of a St. John Hospitaller caring for a wounded knight.

The founding date, of the order, derives from the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. With the loss of the Holy Lands the knights retreated to Cyprus, then Rhodes, to settle finally in Malta in 1530. Today the Order is permanently headquartered in Rome.