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1 Denier - Ferdinand II two kings
| Issuer | Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1163-1165 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of a youthful king in profile facing right, rendered in a simplified Romanesque style characteristic of Leonese medieval coinage. The portrait features schematic facial details with a pronounced nose and chin, set against a plain field. The legend ANFVS REX is disposed around the periphery, identifying the monarch as Alfonso (Fernando II's co-ruler). The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, itself surrounded by a beaded outer border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1163-1165) |
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Ferdinand II of León struck this issue during the brief co-reign forced upon him by the terms of his father Alfonso VII's partition of the empire — a division that split the Leonese and Castilian crowns between Ferdinand and his brother Sancho III in 1157. The "two kings" type reflects the political fiction of dual sovereignty that both brothers maintained on coinage even as their relationship deteriorated toward open conflict. Sancho died in 1158, leaving a three-year-old heir, and Ferdinand spent the following years effectively dominating Castilian affairs while striking coins that still gestured at the old imperial arrangement.