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1 Real - Ferdinandus V and Elisabet I Cuenca
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1474-1497 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the quartered royal shield of Castile and León, divided per cross into four quarters: castles (upper left and lower right) representing Castile, and rampant lions (upper right and lower left) representing León. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown and flanked on each side by a palm or feather-like ornamental device. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the circumferential legend running between the beaded border and the irregular hammered edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Authorized under the Ordinance of Medina del Campo in 1497, which overhauled Castilian coinage and established the excelente as the gold standard, the 1 Real was part of a monetary reform designed to unify the fractured currency system inherited across the crowns of Castile and Aragon. The Cuenca mint was one of a handful of royal houses permitted to strike under the joint monarchs, identified by its distinctive mintmark.
Production at Cuenca was modest relative to Seville or Toledo, making examples from this house notably harder to locate.