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Dinero '1st Granada war' - Alfonso X Coruna
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1264-1268 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse lettering | ALFONSVS REX CASTELLE ET LEGIONIS (Translation: Alfonso X King of Castile and Leon) |
| Reverse description | Quartered field divided by a plain cross, with alternating castles and rampant lions in the four quarters, representing the arms of Castile and Leon respectively. The castles, depicted with three towers, occupy the upper-left and lower-right quarters, while the passant-rampant lions fill the remaining two quarters. The design is characteristic of the heraldic coinage introduced under Alfonso X, with the devices rendered in a bold, stylized relief suited to small billon flans. The cross extending to the coin's edge serves as the primary compositional element, typical of 13th-century Iberian hammered coinage. |
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Alfonso X struck this dinero to fund the campaign against the Moorish uprising of 1264–1266, when the Mudéjar populations of Andalusia and Murcia revolted in coordination with the Nasrid sultan Muhammad I of Granada. The revolt caught Castile badly overstretched, and Alfonso was forced to appeal to his father-in-law, James I of Aragon, for military relief. Emergency coinages from this period are characteristically debased, the billon quality varying noticeably across mints as silver supplies were prioritized for war finance.
The Coruña attribution places production far from the front lines — a deliberate decentralization of minting under Alfonso's broader monetary reforms of the 1260s.