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Real - Enrique IV Burgos
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1471-1474 |
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| Weight | 3.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned Gothic monogram of King Enrique IV — the letter 'E' surmounted by an elaborate multi-arched crown rendered in late Gothic style — all set within a cusped multifoil border. A beaded inner circle separates the central device from the surrounding legend. The Latin circumscription, invoking the Laudes Regiae acclamation, runs between the inner and outer beaded borders, punctuated by decorative stops. The die-work is characteristic of the Burgos hammered coinage of the 1471–1474 period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1471-1474) |
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Enrique IV's later reales were struck amid one of the most chaotic monetary periods in Castilian history. By 1471, rival mints were operating under both Enrique and the Alfonsine pretender faction, producing coins of wildly inconsistent fineness — a crisis that would eventually force Isabel and Fernando to undertake their landmark monetary reform after 1475. Burgos was among the royally sanctioned mints, but quality control was inconsistent even there.
AB#708 is documented with multiple die varieties from the Burgos facility, a predictable consequence of the period's administrative disorder.