Castile (1286-95)-L * cornado
This specimen was lot 74607 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2023), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN. Castile & Leon. Cornado, ND (1284-95). Leon Mint. Sancho IV. PCGS MS-61. Obverse: + SAnC-II RЄX, crowned bust left; Reverse: + CASTЄLLЄ LЄGIOnIS, castle with "L-★" mintmark above. A charming Mint State example with gently lustrous surfaces and full detail remaining." Sancho IV, son and heir of Alfonso IX the Wise, ruled Castile and Leon until his death in 1295, aged 36 years. Sancho's coinage comprised doblas in gold and cornados in billon. A cornado was nine dineros, the dinero having been debased to uselessness. This type was struck at Burgos, Coruña, Cuenca, Leon, Murcia, Toledo and Seville with various mintmarks. Cornados seisenos, worth six dineros, were also struck.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: billon.
Catalog reference: Cayón-1187; MEC-6, 448.
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancient & World Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
Link to:
- Castile (1252-84)-B noven Burgos mint
- Castile (1252-84)-L noven Alfonso X
- Castile (1286-95)-B cornado Burgos mint
- (1286-95)-C cornado of 9 dineros, Cuenca mint
- Castile (1284-95)-M cornado Murcia mint
- Coins and currency dated 1286