Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Dinero - Alfonso VII
| Issuer | Kingdom of Castile and Leon |
|---|---|
| Year | 1135 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Dinero (1087-1350) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized facing bust of Alfonso VII in a primitive Romanesque style, with schematic facial features including pellet eyes and a broad nose. The figure appears to wear a crown or regal headdress, and the bust is flanked by partial decorative elements in the field. The design is characteristic of the crude hammered coinage of 12th-century Iberian mints. The partial circular legend referencing LEGIONIS (León) runs along the periphery. The flan is irregular and the overall strike is off-center, typical of this period's production. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A bold cross pattée occupies the central field, enclosed within a circular inner border, dividing the reverse into four quadrants. Each quadrant contains a decorative element — likely pellets or annulets — rendered in the crude Romanesque style characteristic of 12th-century Leonese coinage. The legend ALFONSVS, identifying the issuing monarch Alfonso VII, is distributed around the periphery in Latin majuscules. The strike is irregular and the flan shows the typical rough edge of hammered billon coinage of the period. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |