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Dobler - Juan II
| Issuer | Majorca, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1458-1479 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A plain Latin cross with flared or bifurcated arm-ends occupies the central field, set within a beaded inner circle that divides it from the surrounding peripheral legend. The quadrants formed by the cross arms are plain. The design is characteristic of the simplified heraldic cross type employed on Majorcan billon doblers of the fifteenth century, struck by hammer with attendant irregularity of flan and strike. |
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Juan II inherited Majorca as part of the Crown of Aragon following the death of Alfonso V in 1458, but the island's billon coinage during his reign was minted under persistent fiscal strain — the Crown was simultaneously financing the suppression of the Catalan Revolt, a civil war that dragged on until 1472 and drained royal resources across every territory. The doblers of this period circulated heavily in local Mallorcan trade, and surviving examples in anything above well-worn condition are genuinely scarce.