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1 Quattrino - Innocent X Jubilee
| Issuer | Papal States - Mint of Gubbio |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Weight | 3.11 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A classical Holy Door (Porta Santa) depicted as a pedimented temple facade with two flanking columns and a triangular pediment, symbolising the Jubilee indulgence of 1650 proclaimed by Pope Innocent X. The architectural rendering is rendered in a simplified but recognisable baroque manner typical of Papal commemorative coinage. The abbreviated legend ANNO IVBIL (Jubilee Year) is distributed around the field within a beaded border. The open doorway at the centre alludes to the ceremonial opening of the Holy Door at Saint Peter's Basilica. |
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Innocent X declared the 1650 Jubilee — the Holy Year — despite the catastrophic disruption the preceding decades had brought to Rome, including plague and the Thirty Years' War finally concluding just two years prior. The Gubbio mint was one of several provincial Papal mints authorized to strike small copper coinage for local circulation, operating with considerably less oversight than the Roman mint and producing pieces with correspondingly rougher workmanship.
Berman 1867 places this quattrino firmly within the Jubilee emission series, though surviving examples vary enough in die alignment and flan quality to suggest output was hurried.