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Dinero - Alfonso VI Toledo
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1087-1090 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Plain cross pattee centered within a beaded inner circle, the arms of the cross extending to the inner border. The surrounding legend reads ANFVS REX in Latin characters, distributed around the outer field. Four small ornamental elements appear in the angles between the cross arms and the beaded circle, consistent with the Romanesque hammered coinage of Alfonso VI of Castile and León. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alfonso VI took Toledo in 1085, the most significant territorial gain of the Reconquista to that point, and almost immediately began striking coinage in the city to assert his control over the former Taifa capital. These dineros, issued in the years immediately following the conquest, represent the first Christian coinage struck at Toledo since the Visigothic period — a gap of roughly four centuries. The AB#8 classification places this among the earliest of Alfonso's Toledan issues, predating the monetary disruptions that followed the Almoravid invasion of 1086.