Meaja - Alfonso VI Toledo

Alfonso VI took Toledo in 1085, the most significant territorial gain of the Reconquista to that point, and these tiny billon issues followed almost immediately as a practical assertion of control over a city that had functioned under taifa monetary conventions for decades. The meaja — half a dinero — was the smallest denomination in regular circulation, and Toledo's mint had been producing Islamic dirhams until Alfonso's capture made it an instrument of Christian royal authority almost overnight.