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Dinero - Jaime I
| Issuer | Valencia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1213-1276 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crowned royal effigy facing front, depicted in a schematic, archaic style characteristic of medieval Iberian hammered coinage. The crowned bust is shown facing, with a large stylized crown adorned with fleurs and globular elements. The face is rendered in a simplified, hieratic manner with prominent features. The effigy is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | IACOBVS REX (Translation: James I King) |
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Jaime I came to the Aragonese throne as a five-year-old in 1213 and spent much of his reign in near-constant military expansion — most consequentially the conquest of the Moorish taifa of Valencia between 1232 and 1245. The dinero issues bearing his authority as king of Valencia are post-conquest emissions, struck in a territory that had operated under Islamic monetary conventions for centuries and where billon coinage of this Carolingian-derived type was an administrative imposition as much as an economic one.
The billon alloy here is notably debased even by Iberian medieval standards.