Meaja - Alfonso VI Leon

Descrizione del dritto	Central field bears a cross pattée enclosed within a plain inner circle, dividing the field into four quarters. The cross is rendered in a bold, somewhat irregular style characteristic of hammered Iberian medieval coinage. Surrounding the inner circle, the Latin legend reads +ANFVS REX, identifying the issuing monarch Alfonso VI. The coin exhibits the crude but expressive workmanship typical of Leonese billon issues of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Alfonso VI died in 1109, meaning this issue falls within the final year of a reign that had already stretched four decades and reshaped the political geography of the Iberian peninsula. His capture of Toledo in 1085 had prompted the Almoravid intervention from North Africa, and by 1108 his armies had suffered the catastrophic defeat at Uclés, where his only legitimate son Sancho was killed — leaving the succession unresolved and the kingdom in crisis. Billon struck this late almost certainly reflects monetary stress rather than administrative routine.