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Dinero - Alfonso VIII five stars
| Issuer | Castile, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1173-1174 |
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| Currency | Dinero |
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| Obverse lettering | +CASTELLA (Translation: Castile) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alfonso VIII was just fifteen when he began asserting direct rule over Castile, having spent his childhood as a pawn between the Lara and Castro noble factions who governed as competing regents. This dinero belongs to his earliest independent coinage, issued around the time he was consolidating royal authority and before his long rivalry with the crown of León had fully hardened into open war.
The five-star type is distinguished from closely related issues by the MOMECA corpus, which separates these billon dineros by star count — a cataloging distinction that reflects genuine die series differences rather than mere collector convenience.