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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Spain| > ME92079
Castile and León, Spain, Henry IV the Impotent, 1454 - 1474
|Spain|, |Castile| |and| |León,| |Spain,| |Henry| |IV| |the| |Impotent,| |1454| |-| |1474|, King of Castile, nicknamed "the Impotent", was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. During Henry's reign, the nobles became more powerful and the nation became less centralized.

Fifty-nine blancas of this type were unearthed during excavations at La Isabela in the Dominican Republic, the first European settlement in the New World, which was founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494 (Stahl 1992, Deagan 1992). A single blanca of Henry IV also was found at the Long Bay site on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, which is argued to have been the first American landfall of Columbus in 1492. (Brill 1987).
ME92079. Billon blanca, Valdés XV 135, F, green patina, earthen deposits, cleaning scratches, Toledo mint, weight 0.836g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 90o, 1471; obverse + ENRICVS DEI GRACI R (Enrique by God's grace, king), Castle, aqueduct with three arches, T (mintmark) below, within rhombus inside circle, four annulets between rhombus and circle; reverse + XPS VIRCIT XPS REGN (Christ conquers, Christ reigns), crowned lion rampant, end of tail crossed forming T (mintmark), within rhombus inside circle, four annulets between rhombus and circle; SOLD











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