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Dinero - Alfonso X 1st Granada war
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1264-1268 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Royal legend arranged in six horizontal lines across the field, reading ALFONSVS REX CASTELLE ET LEGIONIS, identifying the issuing monarch as Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon. The lettering is rendered in a Gothic-influenced Latin script typical of mid-13th century Castilian coinage. The flan is irregular in shape, as is characteristic of hammered medieval billon dineros of this period. There is no central device; the entire obverse surface is occupied by the inscribed text. |
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| Mintage | ND (1264-1268) |
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Alfonso X financed the First Granada War — triggered by the Mudéjar revolt of 1264, backed by Muhammad I of Granada and the Marinid sultanate of Morocco — through emergency billon issues like this dinero, debased well below the silver content of earlier Leonese and Castilian monetary standards. The revolt simultaneously engulfed Andalusia and Murcia, stretching royal resources thin enough that monetary debasement became a fiscal tool as much as a military one.