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Morabitino - Sancho I
| Issuer | Portugal |
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| Year | 1185-1211 |
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| Currency | Libra (1st Dynasty, 1128-1383) |
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| Obverse lettering | SANCIVS REX PORTVGALI (Translation: King Sancho of Portugal) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sancho I inherited the morabitino directly from his father Afonso Henriques, who had adopted the type wholesale from the Almoravid gold dinars flooding the Iberian Peninsula through trade and tribute. The name itself is a Portuguesization of "Almoravid." Sancho's reign saw the southern frontier push aggressively into the Algarve, and these coins almost certainly funded the military campaigns and castle-building programs that defined his kingship — he was called "o Povoador," the Populator, for his systematic colonization of reconquered territories.