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1 Quattrino - Benedict XIV St. Ubaldo
| Issuer | Gubbio (Papal States) |
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| Year | 1745 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of St. Ubaldus, Bishop of Gubbio, depicted standing facing slightly left, vested in episcopal robes and wearing a mitre, holding a crosier in his left hand. The abbreviated Latin legend S.VBALDVS H.P.HV runs along the right side of the field. The design is rendered in the modest low-relief style typical of small Papal States copper coinage of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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Benedict XIV authorized a series of local copper issues for the smaller communes of the Papal States during the 1740s, a practical concession to the chronic shortage of petty coinage that plagued central Italian markets throughout the period. Gubbio, a hilltown in Umbria under direct papal administration, issued under its own civic identity while remaining subordinate to Rome for monetary authority.
Ubaldo Baldassini, bishop of Gubbio in the twelfth century and canonized in 1192, was the city's fierce protector during the Barbarossa campaigns — his intervention credited locally with sparing Gubbio from imperial sack.