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Enrique - Enrique IV Seville
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1455-1471 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Quartered shield within a quadrilobe or cusped inner frame, displaying alternating castles of Castile and lions rampant of León in the four quarters. The castle, rendered with three towers, appears in the upper-left and lower-right quarters, while the lion rampant occupies the upper-right and lower-left quarters. Small roundels are placed at the cardinal points of the quadrilobe. The surrounding circular Latin legend is contained between the inner beaded border and the outer beaded rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Enrique IV's gold coinage was issued against a backdrop of chronic political instability — his reign saw the nobility effectively strip him of authority at the "Farce of Ávila" in 1465, a staged deposition ceremony in which a effigy of the king was publicly degraded. The Seville mint was among the most active of his reign, and output was substantial enough that his gold issues circulated well beyond Castilian borders into Portuguese and Aragonese territory.
AB#653 corresponds to a specific weight standard that Enrique attempted to stabilize following earlier debasement controversies that had plagued Castilian coinage since his father Juan II's reign.