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1/4 Real - Pedro IV shoe
| Issuer | Kingdom of Majorca |
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| Year | 1336-1387 |
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| Currency | Libra |
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| Reverse description | Quartered shield of arms divided by a bold cross extending to the inner border, with the heraldic devices of Aragon and Majorca occupying the four quadrants in a composition typical of 14th-century Iberian coinage. Stylized lions and bars appear in the quarters, rendered in the flat, compact style of hammered medieval dies. A beaded inner circle frames the central armorial design, with the circumferential Latin legend distributed around the outer margin between two borders. The die work is characteristic of the Palma de Majorca mint under Peter IV. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pedro IV of Aragon — known as "el Ceremoniós" — definitively extinguished the Kingdom of Majorca as an independent entity in 1343, deposing his cousin Jaume III and annexing the islands directly to the Crown of Aragon. Coinage continued to be struck in Majorca's name under his authority, a political convenience that maintained local commercial continuity while the dynasty that had issued it was finished. The "shoe" designation in the collector literature refers to a specific privy mark used to distinguish this emission.