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1 Obol - Ferdinand II two kings
| Issuer | Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1163-1165 |
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| Weight | 0.45 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ANFVS REX (Translation: Alfonso King) |
| Reverse description | Crowned bust of a king facing right, depicted with a sword held upright before him, rendered in the angular Romanesque style characteristic of 12th-century Leonese hammered billon coinage. The crowned effigy, identifiable as Fernando II of León, is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the reverse legend distributed in the outer field between concentric beaded borders. The strike is irregular, with some weakness at the flan edges consistent with hand-hammered production. |
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Ferdinand II of León struck these coins jointly with his nephew Alfonso VIII of Castile during a brief period of political alignment between the two kingdoms — an arrangement that dissolved as both rulers consolidated independent power. The "two kings" designation reflects a genuine co-issue, not merely a titular acknowledgment, making it one of the more unusual monetary collaborations of twelfth-century Iberia.
The billon content is characteristically low even by the debased standards of Leonese coinage of this period.