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1/2 Real - Enrique II Seville
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1373-1379 |
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| Reference(s) | AB#410, Cy#1341 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a Gothic castle with three towers, a typical heraldic device of the Kingdom of Castile, set within a cusped quadrilobe or lobate inner frame formed by arcs. A beaded border surrounds the central design, and a Latin royal legend encircles the periphery. The castle is rendered in bold relief characteristic of hammered Castilian silver coinage of the reign of Enrique II. |
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Enrique II came to power by murdering his half-brother Pedro I in 1369 — a fratricide that ended a brutal civil war and left the new king deeply dependent on the nobles and foreign allies who had backed him. His monetary reforms reflected this political debt: the coinage was reorganized and marked to reassert royal authority after years of competing mints and debased issues produced under the pressures of war. Seville, recaptured from Pedrista control, was among the reinstated royal mints.
The short dating window of this issue — six years before Enrique's death in 1379 — keeps surviving examples from achieving large populations in any grade.