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Cuartillo - Alfonso de Avila pretender, Seville
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1465-1468 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ALFONSVS DEI GRACIA REX CAS (Translation: Alfonso King of Castile by the grace of God) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Alfonso de Ávila was proclaimed king by rebellious Castilian nobles in June 1465 at the so-called Farce of Ávila, a staged ceremony in which an effigy of the reigning Henry IV was symbolically stripped of its crown and cast down. The pretender's coinage — struck at Seville among other mints — circulated for barely three years before Alfonso's sudden death in 1468 collapsed the rebellion entirely, leaving his issues as artifacts of a dynastic crisis that never resolved itself through force.