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Dinero - Alfonso VII Toledo
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1126-1157 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | A lion passant with a crowned human head facing left occupies the field in a crude, archaic style characteristic of Iberian medieval hammered coinage. The leonine body is rendered in low relief with schematic limbs, while the human head bears a visible crown, symbolising royal authority. The Latin legend LEON appears in the field, identifying the Kingdom of León. The flan is irregular in shape with weak peripheral strike, typical of 12th-century billon dineros. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alfonso VII's long reign saw him crowned Imperator totius Hispaniae in 1135 at León — the only Castilian-Leonese monarch to formally claim the imperial title over the other Iberian kingdoms. The billon coinage struck under him at Toledo reflects the city's status as the premier mint of the reconquered south, taken from the Moors in 1085 and still administratively distinct from the northern Castilian minting tradition.
AB#36 is among the earlier documented types in Álvarez Burgos's classification of medieval Castilian coinage, placing this issue at the foundational layer of the post-reconquest Toledo mint series.