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Real - Enrique IV Seville
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1455-1471 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ENRICVS CVARTVS DEI GRACIA REX (Translation: Henry IV King by the grace of God) |
| Reverse description | Quartered royal arms of Castile and Leon displayed within a quadrilobe or four-lobed inner frame, divided by a plain cross. The first and fourth quarters bear the castle of Castile, and the second and third quarters bear the rampant lion of Leon. The heraldic shield is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the royal legend distributed between the inner and outer beaded borders of the field. |
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Enrique IV's coinage is among the most politically fraught in Castilian history. His reign saw noble factions so hostile to royal authority that in 1465 they staged the "Farce of Ávila" — a mock deposition in which a straw effigy of the king was stripped of its crown and cast down. The monetary system was equally contested; Enrique authorized so many mints and so many private contractors that counterfeiting and debasement became endemic, prompting formal complaints from the Cortes repeatedly through the 1460s.
The Seville mint was among the most productive of his authorized houses, its output identifiable by the S mintmark.