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Quattrino - Francis Maria I Gubbio, shield
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1508-1517 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central heraldic shield bearing the Montefeltro dynastic arms, flanked and accompanied by a pellet on three sides, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend in Latin abbreviation identifies the issuing ruler as Duke Francis Maria. The die work is consistent with hammered provincial coinage of the early sixteenth century, with the shield rendered in a simplified heraldic style characteristic of small-denomination billon issues of the Duchy of Urbino. |
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Francesco Maria I della Rovere inherited Urbino in 1508 through his uncle Guidobaldo, who died without an heir, and was promptly stripped of the duchy by Pope Julius II in 1516 — his own great-uncle — before reclaiming it the following year after Julius's death. This quattrino falls squarely within that turbulent window, minted at Gubbio under a ruler whose hold on his territories was never secure for long. The billon content of small civic issues like this degraded noticeably across the period as repeated political disruptions interrupted regular mint operations.