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Cruzado - Enrique II
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1369-1373 |
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| Weight | 2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a crowned bust of King Enrique II facing right, rendered in the characteristic flat, stylized Gothic manner typical of mid-14th-century Castilian coinage. The effigy is enclosed within an inner beaded circle. The circumferential Latin legend reads + ENRICVS : REX : LEGIONIS, identifying the king as Rex of León. The flan is irregular in shape, as is common for hammered billon issues of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | + ENRICVS : REX : LEGIONIS |
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Enrique II issued this coin in the immediate aftermath of seizing the Castilian throne by force — he had his half-brother Pedro I killed at Montiel in March 1369, ending a brutal civil war that had drawn in both the Black Prince and Bertrand du Guesclin as opposing mercenary commanders. The cruzado series was part of a broader monetary reorganization intended to stabilize a kingdom financially wrecked by nearly a decade of factional warfare and foreign intervention.
The AB#462 attribution places this within Álvarez Burgos's classification of Enrique's first monetary phase, before the 1373 reforms tightened billon standards across the realm.