1/4 Real - Enrique IV Seville

Enrique IV's quarter-real issues from Seville are products of one of the most chaotic reigns in Castilian history. By 1465, a faction of nobles had staged a theatrical deposition of the king in effigy at Ávila — the so-called "Farce of Ávila" — and proclaimed his younger brother Alfonso as a rival king. Minting continued under both claimants simultaneously, creating parallel issues whose attribution still challenges specialists. The Seville mint, operating under shifting loyalties throughout the civil conflict, produced coinage of notoriously inconsistent fineness during this period.