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Dinero - Fernando IV
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1295-1312 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a stylized castle with three towers, the central tower being the tallest, rendered in a schematic Gothic manner typical of Castilian medieval coinage. Three pellets appear beneath the base of the castle, serving as a distinguishing privy mark for this emission. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading F REX CASTELLE, identifying Fernando IV as King of Castile. The overall design is characteristic of the hammered billon dineros struck during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. |
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| Mintage | ND (1295-1312) |
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Fernando IV inherited the throne at age nine in 1295, and the regency struggle that followed — contested between his mother María de Molina, his uncle Enrique de Senabria, and the Aragonese crown — created genuine institutional uncertainty over who held minting authority. Billon coinage of this reign circulated through a kingdom perpetually short of silver, and the dinero denominations absorbed the worst of that shortage in their alloy.
Fernando died in 1312 at thirty, reportedly in good health, within a month of having sentenced two brothers to death by throwing them from a cliff. The nickname history assigned him — El Emplazado, the Summoned — derives from their alleged dying curse.