Real - Enrique II

Enrique II's claim to the throne was contested from the start — this coinage was struck during the civil war against his half-brother Pedro I, whom Enrique's forces (backed by French mercenary companies under Bertrand du Guesclin) ultimately defeated at Montiel in 1369. Pedro was killed there, and Enrique's Trastámara dynasty went on to rule Castile for over a century. These reales belong to the legitimizing monetary output of a pretender who had not yet won.