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Scudo d'oro - Giulia and Guidobaldo of Rovere
| Issuer | Camerino |
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| Year | 1534-1539 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field dominated by an ornate fleurdelisée cross with trefoil terminals and globular ornaments at the extremities and angles, executed in high relief in the hammered tradition. The cross is rendered in an elegant Renaissance decorative style, with acorn or bud-like finials consistent with della Rovere iconography. The surrounding circular Latin legend, separated from the central device by a beaded border, reads: + NONTIMEBO • MALA • QVONIA : TV • MECV : ES, a devotional quotation from Psalm 22 (Vulgate), meaning 'I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me.' The flan is irregular, as is typical of Renaissance hammered gold coinage of the Marche region. |
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Camerino's brief period of autonomous coinage under the Varano dynasty ended violently when Pope Paul III suppressed the lordship in 1539, executing Giulio Cesare Varano and absorbing the territory into the Papal States. This scudo belongs to the joint issue struck in the names of Giulia Varano and her husband Guidobaldo II della Rovere, a dynastic marriage arranged in 1534 that gave the della Rovere a foothold in Camerino — one Paul III ultimately refused to honor. The issue spans barely five years of political maneuvering before Rome intervened.