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Enrique - Alfonso de Avila pretender, Toledo
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1465-1468 |
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| Weight | 4.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alfonso de Ávila was proclaimed king by rebellious Castilian nobles in June 1465 at the "Farce of Ávila," a theatrical ceremony in which an effigy of the reigning Enrique IV was stripped of its crown and cast down. The young Alfonso — twelve years old at the time — became the figurehead of a baronial revolt that fractured Castile for three years. Toledo, a mint city with both royal and rebel allegiances during this period, produced coinage under both claimants simultaneously at points during the conflict.
Alfonso died in July 1468, likely of plague, ending the pretendership before it could consolidate. His sister Isabel subsequently refused to assume the rebel crown on the same terms.