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Real - Enrique II Coruna
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1373-1379 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a crowned Gothic monogram of the letter E (for Enrique) within a beaded inner circle, surmounted by a large open crown with trefoil finials. The monogram is rendered in a bold Gothic style characteristic of mid-14th-century Castilian coinage. A beaded border separates the central device from the outer legend. The circumferential Latin legend reads from a cross pattee and runs within the outer beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Enrique II's reales were among the first coins to carry the castles-and-lions quartered arms as a fixed heraldic device on Castilian silver, a deliberate assertion of dynastic legitimacy from a king who had seized the throne by killing his half-brother Pedro I in 1369. The Coruña mint was one of several activated or expanded under Enrique precisely because the civil war had devastated royal revenues and the new dynasty needed coinage fast.
AB#404 is the standard Álvarez Burgos reference; collectors should note that Coruña-struck examples are distinguished from other mint attributions primarily by the crown mintmark, which can be faint on worn flans.