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Tornês de Escudo - Fernando I Corunha mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Portugal |
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| Year | 1369-1370 |
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| Value | 1 Tornês = 72 Dinheiros |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A bold plain cross pattée occupies the central field, dividing the reverse into four equal quarters, each plain. The cross is enclosed within a double beaded inner circle. Between the inner and outer beaded borders runs a lengthy Latin legend in uncial script, excerpted from Psalm 117:6, affirming royal and divine authority. A small ornamental rosette or star serves as a word divider within the legend. The overall style is consistent with late 14th-century Iberian hammered billon coinage. |
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Fernando I struck these bilhão torneses in the opening year of his reign under circumstances shaped immediately by war — his claim to the Castilian throne following Pedro I's death drew Portugal into prolonged conflict with Enrique II of Trastámara, straining the treasury and accelerating the debasement cycle that would define Fernandine coinage throughout the 1370s and 1380s. The Corunha mint attribution is notable; A Coruña operated under Portuguese control only briefly during Fernando's intermittent campaigns in Galicia, making its output from this period geographically and politically contingent.