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Maravedi - Enrique IV Avila
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1466-1471 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1466-1471) |
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Enrique IV's billon maravedis are among the most politically charged coinage of medieval Castile. The king's monetary policy was a disaster by almost any measure — successive debasements through the 1460s flooded the kingdom with low-quality billon, triggering inflation severe enough that the Cortes repeatedly demanded reform. Avila is a particularly pointed mint for this issue: it was in Avila, in 1465, that a faction of rebellious nobles staged the "Farce of Ávila," deposing a effigy of Enrique in absentia and proclaiming his young half-brother Alfonso king.
Coins from this mint and period circulated under two rival claimants simultaneously.