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Quattrino - Lorenzo Medici
| Issuer | Duchy of Urbino (Italian States) |
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| Year | 1513-1519 |
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| Value | Quattrino (⅙) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici received the lordship of Urbino in 1516 after Leo X engineered a brutal military campaign to oust Francesco Maria I della Rovere — a dispossession that scandalized much of the Italian peninsula. The duchy was effectively a papal gift, and Lorenzo's coinage from this period reflects his awkward dual status as both Florentine magnate and imposed Urbinate ruler. He died in 1519 at twenty-six, almost certainly of syphilis compounded by tuberculosis, leaving no legitimate male heir and the duchy reverting promptly to della Rovere control.