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Quattrino - Guidobaldo I of Montefeltro Bust with hat
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1482-1508 |
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| Value | Quattrino (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Youthful draped bust of Guidobaldo I da Montefeltro facing left, wearing a distinctive flat-brimmed hat characteristic of Italian Renaissance portraiture. The effigy is rendered in a bold, slightly crude hammered style typical of small Quattrocento coinage. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the abbreviated ducal legend distributed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse description | A crowned shield composed of nine arcs bearing the quartered arms of Urbino and Montefeltro, the heraldic device of the ruling dynasty. The shield is centrally placed in the field, flanked by the devotional legend in Latin distributed around the periphery. A beaded inner border frames the composition, consistent with the hammered technique and style of the obverse. |
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Guidobaldo I inherited Urbino from his father Federico da Montefeltro in 1482 at age ten, and his reign was anything but stable — Cesare Borgia seized the duchy outright in 1502, forcing Guidobaldo into exile. He was restored the following year through a combination of local loyalty and Spanish pressure, but the interruption likely disrupted mint operations at Urbino significantly. Small bronze issues from this reign are difficult to attribute to specific years precisely because of that gap.