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1/4 Real - Enrique IV Segovia
| Issuer | Crown of Castile |
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| Year | 1471-1474 |
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| Currency | Real (1471-1497) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned Gothic monogram of the letter 'E' (for Enrique) displayed prominently in the central field, surmounted by a large floreated crown rendered in bold relief typical of late medieval Castilian hammered coinage. The monogram is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding legend partially visible around the periphery. The die work is characteristic of the Segovia mint under Enrique IV, with somewhat irregular flan edges common to hand-struck issues of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Enrique IV's reign was defined by chronic fiscal disorder and a political crisis so severe that a faction of Castilian nobles staged the "Farce of Ávila" in 1465 — symbolically deposing a straw effigy of the king. The crown's authority over its own mints deteriorated accordingly, with multiple cities operating under effectively autonomous monetary conditions by the early 1470s. Segovia's output during this terminal phase of the reign reflects that instability in its often irregular fabric.
The AB#731 attribution places this among the fractional silver struck in the closing years before Isabel I's accession forced a sweeping monetary reform that rendered most Enriqueño coinage obsolete almost immediately.