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Quattrino - Guidobaldo I of Montefeltro Short bust
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1482-1508 |
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| Weight | 1.2 g |
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| Obverse lettering | × GVIDVS × VB × VRB × DVX × (Translation: Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino) |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays the quartered heraldic shield of the Montefeltro dynasty at center, featuring the characteristic divisions of the Urbino ducal arms. The shield occupies the central field and is rendered in a bold, slightly irregular style consistent with hammered coinage of the period. A beaded border frames the design. The circular Latin legend * * FIDES * SPES * CARITAS * surrounds the shield, invoking the three theological virtues — Faith, Hope, and Charity — with asterisk separators between each word. |
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Guidobaldo I inherited Urbino from his father Federico in 1482 at age ten, and his long reign was repeatedly destabilized — most catastrophically in 1502, when Cesare Borgia seized the duchy and drove him into exile. He recovered it the following year after Borgia's position collapsed, but the interruption almost certainly disrupted mint operations, making a clean attribution of these bronzes to specific sub-periods within the 1482–1508 range impossible without die study.
The CNI XIII grouping across references 28–31 suggests at least minor die variation across the emission.