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Barbuda - Fernando I Zamora/Spain
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1370-1371 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | + DMINVS * MICHI * AVITOR * ET * EGO * D. (Translation: `The Lord is with me, he is my help, I will triumph over my enemies` Salm. 118-7) |
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| Mintage | ND (1370-1371) Ç-A - Gomes#Fe 42.01 (No shield over shoulder) - ND (1370-1371) Ç-A - Gomes#Fe 43.01 (Shield with 5 cross shields - ND (1370-1371) Ç-A - Gomes#Fe 43.03 (Shield with 5 points like a dice) - |
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The barbuda takes its name from the visored helmet depicted on the obverse — but you already know that. What the catalog number won't tell you is that Fernando I struck this issue during one of the most chaotic stretches of his reign, when his disastrous intervention in the Castilian succession crisis had already begun unraveling. By 1370–71, he was militarily outmatched by Enrique II and negotiating a humiliating peace at Alcoutim. Coinage was being manipulated to fund a war Portugal was losing.