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⅔ Grosso - Francis Maria I della Rovere
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1508-1538 |
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| Value | ⅔ Grosso |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANC MA DVX VRBINI (Translation: Francis Maria, Duke of Urbino) |
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| Reverse lettering | CREDERE TVTIVS (Translation: Safer to believe.) |
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Francis Maria I della Rovere's tenure as Duke of Urbino was anything but stable — he was stripped of the duchy by Pope Leo X in 1516 and spent years in military exile before recovering it by force in 1521. Coins struck under his name therefore span two discontinuous periods of actual rule, and attributing a specific piece to either reign without supporting die evidence is genuinely difficult.
The ⅔ grosso denomination itself reflects the fractional silver accounting common to small north-central Italian courts, where local trade demanded subdivisions that larger powers simply minted around.