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1/2 Enrique - Enrique IV Guadalajara
| Issuer | Kingdom of Castile and León |
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| Year | 1455-1465 |
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| Currency | Real (1462-1465) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | + ENRICVS: REX: CASTELLE E: |
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Enrique IV's gold coinage was among the most politically contested of any medieval Castilian king. His reign saw the humiliating ceremony of the "Farce of Ávila" in 1465, where rebel nobles symbolically deposed a straw effigy of him — a crisis rooted partly in disputes over royal finances and the debasement of the vellón coinage that ran parallel to these gold issues. The Guadalajara mint, operating under royal license, was one of several facilities producing half-enriques during the decade before that rupture.