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Dinero - Alfonso VII Leon
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1126-1135 |
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| Currency | Dinero (1087-1350) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a stylised lion passant or rampant in profile, rendered in the bold schematic manner characteristic of early medieval Iberian coinage, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Stars are positioned between the legend and the inner circle, punctuating the field at intervals. The peripheral legend LEO CIVITAS, identifying the mint city of León, runs around the circumference between the beaded circle and the outer toothed border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1126-1135) |
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Alfonso VII's early coinage as king of León predates his 1135 imperial coronation at León, when he was acclaimed Emperor of All Spain — a title no Iberian ruler had claimed in over a century. These billon dineros belong to the years when he was consolidating authority against both Aragonese encroachment and internal Leonese opposition following his mother Urraca's turbulent reign.
AB#45 is among the thinner documented types from this transitional period of Castilian-Leonese minting.