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Quattrino - Guidobaldo I of Montefeltro Ostrich
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1482-1508 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | * ✤ CIVITAS * VRBINI * ✤ (Translation: City of Urbino) |
| Edge | Plain |
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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 before a popular uprising restored him the following year. Small bronze issues like this quattrino were the everyday transaction coinage of a court that Federico had made one of the most celebrated in Italy, even as Guidobaldo struggled to hold it together politically. The ostrich device was a Montefeltro dynastic emblem inherited from Federico himself.