Dobla - Pedro I

Pedro I came to the Castilian throne in 1350 at age fifteen and spent much of his reign in open civil war against his illegitimate half-brother Enrique de Trastámara, who was backed by Aragonese and French forces. The dobla issues of his reign were minted under that persistent pressure, with royal finances stretched by military campaigns on multiple fronts. The 1366 cutoff reflects the year Enrique seized Burgos and forced Pedro into exile, effectively ending his control of the mints.

AB#365 is among the more precisely documented attributions in Álvarez Burgos's classification of medieval Castilian gold, distinguishing Pedro's doblas from the near-contemporary Trastámaran issues that immediately followed.