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Dinero - Alfonso VII Toledo
| Issuer | Castile and Leon, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1130 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Alfonso VII depicted in a stylized Romanesque manner, wearing a pointed crown or helmet with decorative elements, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The ruler's face is rendered frontally with schematic features characteristic of early medieval Iberian coinage. The surrounding legend reads X TOLETVLA, referencing the mint city of Toledo. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hand-struck hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | X TOLETVLA |
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Alfonso VII was crowned Emperor of All Spain in Toledo in 1135 — one of the most politically charged acts of the Reconquista period — and the dineros struck in Toledo during his reign reflect the city's symbolic weight as the former Visigothic capital, recovered from Muslim rule only in 1085. Billon coinage from this reign is poorly documented in terms of exact mint chronology, and AB#49 represents one of the earlier attributions in the series.