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1/2 Real - Fernando II
| Issuer | Majorca, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1412-1416 |
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| Value | 1/2 Real (1/20) |
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| Obverse description | Facing crowned bust of Ferdinand I within a beaded inner circle, the king depicted with flowing hair beneath an elaborate Gothic crown, rendered in the medieval hammered style typical of Aragonese coinage. The effigy is set within a cusped or lobed frame with beaded borders. The circumferential legend in Latin runs around the outer field, separated from the central device by the inner beaded circle. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fernando I of Aragon — known as Fernando de Antequera — held the Majorcan crown from 1412 following the Compromise of Caspe, which ended the interregnum crisis after the extinction of the direct Aragonese royal line. His reign lasted only four years before his death in 1416, making issues from this period inherently short-lived by circumstance rather than design policy.
Cru#771 is among the scarcer half-real types of the Balearic series precisely because of that compressed window.