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Dinero - Alfonso VI Toledo
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1103 |
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| Weight | 0.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ANFVS REX (Translation: Alphonse King) |
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Alfonso VI captured Toledo from the Taifa king Al-Qadir in 1085 — the most strategically significant Christian territorial gain of the Reconquista to that point — and almost immediately began striking coinage there to assert administrative control over the city. The Toledo mint had operated under Islamic monetary conventions for centuries, and these early Leonese issues reflect an awkward transitional moment: a Christian king issuing billon coinage for a population still largely Arab and Mozarab in composition.
AB#5 is among the earliest datable Christian-struck pieces from Toledo's mint.