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Morabitino - Afonso I Braga mint
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1139-1185 |
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| Value | 1 Morabitino = 180 Dinheiros |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a cross formed by five heraldic shields arranged in a quincunx pattern, a type that would become emblematic of the Portuguese royal arms. A seven-pointed star appears in three of the angles of the cross, while the mint letter B, denoting the Braga mint, occupies the fourth angle. The entire design is enclosed within a circular Latin legend and a beaded border, the whole struck in characteristic irregular hammered fabric. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONETA DOMINI.I.AFNSI |
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The morabitino was Portugal's first native gold coinage, issued after Afonso Henriques consolidated his kingship following the Battle of Ourique in 1139. The coin's very name derives from the Almoravid gold dinar — the maravedi — which had dominated Iberian commerce for decades and against whose weight and fineness Afonso deliberately calibrated his own issue, signaling both economic parity and political independence from both Moorish and Leonese authority.
The Braga mint was among the earliest to strike these, given the city's ecclesiastical primacy in Portugal. Gomes A1 08 represents one of the scarcer attributable varieties from this foundational series.