Maravedi - Enrique IV Avila

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.