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Dobla - Juan II Seville
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1430-1454 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | IOHANES DEI GRACIA REX CASTELLE |
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| Mint | Seville Mint |
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Juan II's reign produced some of the most politically turbulent decades in Castilian history, with effective power held for much of the period by his favorite Álvaro de Luna, whose control over the king was so complete that contemporaries openly questioned whether Juan governed at all. The Seville mint — the Casa de la Moneda de Sevilla, one of Castile's most active — supplied gold coinage to a court that spent lavishly despite chronic fiscal instability and intermittent civil conflict with the Aragonese faction of the infantes.
Álvaro de Luna was ultimately beheaded in 1453, a year before Juan's own death, leaving this issue as a product of one of medieval Iberia's stranger power arrangements.