Dinero - Alfonso VII Leon

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.