Picciolo - Oddantonio of Montefeltro Gubbio

Oddantonio da Montefeltro ruled Urbino for less than a year before being murdered in a palace conspiracy on July 22, 1444 — a plot almost certainly orchestrated with the complicity of his own subjects, who resented his tyrannical conduct. His half-brother Federico, who assumed power immediately after, went on to become one of the most celebrated rulers of Renaissance Italy, which has largely overshadowed Oddantonio's brief and violent tenure. Coinage from his reign is accordingly rare by circumstance rather than by any minting policy.