c.1538, Quattrino - Guidobaldo II della Rovere - Città di Pesaro

Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino  (1514-1538-1574✟).

Country: Lordship (City) of Pesaro (Italian states)
Type: Standard circulation coin
Years: Undated (1574-1624)
Value: Quattrino (1⁄60)
Currency: Scudo
Metal: Billon
Weight: 0.5 g
Diameter: 16 mm
Shape: Round (irregular)
Technique: Hammered
Grade: VG
Orientation: Variable alignment ↺
References: Cavicchi# 145 / CNI tav.26 n.6

Obverse:
Spread and crowned eagle with head turned to left, within a crown of leaves, anepigraph.

Reverse:
Saint Terence (protector of the city of Pisaro) standing facing right, in military dress, with a palm in his right hand and a city in his left hand. Latin legend around.

Lettering:
[S•] TERENTI• PISAVR•

Translation: Saint Terence - Pisaro. 

Edge: 
Smooth.

Comments:
Guidobaldo II della Rovere (2 April 1514 – 28 September 1574) was an Italian condottiero, who succeeded his father Francesco Maria I della Rovere as Duke of Urbino from 1538 until his death in 1574. He was a member of the House of La Rovere. Guidobaldo was an important patron of the arts in general, and of Titian in particular, commissioning his own portrait, and buying Titian's Venus of Urbino.

Referencia : Cavicchi# 145 / CNI tav.26 n.6

Fuente : https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it...

Colección : Italian States - Pre Risorgimento (1250-1861) & Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) Republic (1946-date)