Cuartillo - Alfonso de Ávila pretender, Medina del Campo

Alfonso de Ávila was proclaimed king of Castile in June 1465 at the so-called Farce of Ávila, where a effigy of the reigning Henry IV was symbolically stripped of its regalia and toppled — one of the more theatrical acts of medieval Iberian political theater. The teenage Alfonso never secured the throne; he died in 1468, likely of plague, ending the rebellion's dynastic gambit before it could consolidate. Coins struck in his name during these three years circulated in territories controlled by the rebel nobility, giving this issue a geographically and chronologically compressed production window that directly shapes surviving populations.