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1/2 Real - Enrique IV Cuenca
| Issuer | Kingdom of Castile and Leon |
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| Year | 1471-1474 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a quartered coat of arms of Castile and Leon, divided by a plain bold cross into four quarters: castles (towers) in the first and fourth quarters representing Castile, and rampant lions in the second and third quarters representing Leon. The cross itself forms the primary compositional element, with the heraldic charges filling each quadrant in typical late medieval Castilian style. The surrounding peripheral legend in Gothic Lombardic script runs within a beaded border, identifying the issuing monarch. The hammered flan results in some weakness and irregularity at the coin's edges. |
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Enrique IV's final years were consumed by the War of Castilian Succession, a dynastic crisis in which his own nobles declared his half-brother Alfonso king in 1465 — the so-called "Farce of Ávila" — and later backed Isabella after Alfonso's death. Coinage from Cuenca during this period was struck under conditions of fractured royal authority, with mints operating under shifting loyalties. The Cuenca mint held royal favor intermittently, but output quality varied considerably as administrative control wavered.
AB#724 encompasses known die variations across the 1471–1474 window. Enrique died in December 1474, within weeks of Isabella's proclamation as queen.