1 Quattrino - Clement XII St. Ubaldo - standing, mitred

Clement XII — Lorenzo Corsini — was elected pope in 1730 at age 78, already nearly blind, and spent much of his pontificate conducting affairs from bed. The Gubbio mint was among the smaller provincial operations retained under papal authority, striking local copper for everyday commerce in Umbria. St. Ubaldo, bishop of Gubbio in the twelfth century, was fiercely local in his cult — his uncorrupted body still rests in the basilica above the city — making him a natural choice for coinage intended to circulate almost exclusively within the town itself.