1 Quattrino - Benedict XIII Jubilee

Benedict XIII declared 1725 a Holy Year, and subsidiary mints across the Papal States were authorized to strike jubilee issues to meet the surge in pilgrim traffic. Gubbio, a minor papal mint in Umbria, produced this quattrino as functional small change rather than any commemorative gesture — jubilee years generated enormous demand for low-denomination copper simply because Rome filled with travelers who needed to make small purchases and charitable offerings.

Benedict XIII was himself a Dominican friar of austere habits, largely indifferent to the financial machinery his jubilee set in motion. The Gubbio mint operated under leased arrangements typical of smaller papal dependencies, and output records for this issue are incomplete.