Cuartillo - Alfonso de Avila pretender, Seville

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.