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Pillar of the Community
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Latest pick up.. Sancho IV was the first king to introduce the denomination Cornado and this is a king I will concentrate on a bit this year as this series has 5 different mints to collect..the OP coin Burgos, Cuenca, Medina Del Campo(some controversy), Seville, and Toledo.. The Heiss numbers change depending on mint location..Does anyone have them? Spain, Castile and León..Sancho IV 1284-1295 Cornado 0.81gr..Burgos mint. Obverse...SANCII REX...Crowned bust facing left..3 dots in the crown. Reverse...CASTELLE LEGIONIS...Three towered castle surmounted by a cross rising from the centre tower with B/* either side of cross..Arched door. Bautista-427 Variant.(Only reference I have from seller)   Edited by Palouche
07/07/2019 08:19 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Great looking coin and interesting bio - Geez...4,000 partisans executed.
Thanks for sharing, Paul.
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Pillar of the Community
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Great coin! I also aim for type/mint combinations for some of the medieval areas I collect. Interesting that the reverse design is supposed to be a castle, since Burgos is also home to one of Spain's great Gothic cathedrals. Here's a photo from a recent visit. In Sancho IV's time, the towers would have had squared off tops, like the building on the coin. The spires were a later addition, patterned after those in Cologne:  |
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That's a beauty, well struck with excellent detail.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with tdziemia. The building is clearly a church. Note the giant cross above the entrance. If the pointed spires are later additions, the facade of the Burgos cathedral is a good match. Very nice example!
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07/07/2019 5:26 pm
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Thanks guys  Interesting observation tdz, I agree, certainly looks like a cathedral or church.. Most references of this series describe it as a castle probably due to the Castile and León symbols used before the merger  ...Paul Edited by Palouche
07/10/2019 12:07 pm
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Interesting observation tdz, I agree, certainly looks like a cathedral or church..
Most references of this series describe it as a castle probably due to the Castile and León symbols While I am pretty ignorant on Spanish medievals, I understand that by the early modern era, the Castile & Leon symbols were a castle and lion, as in the quadrants between the crosses on all those colonials. It just struck me that on that 13th century coin the center was lower than the towers (as pointed out by @arkie), and the crosses suggested a religious edifice as mentioned by @kushanshah. Of course fortified medieval churches had both religious and civic roles. There are medieval coins from northern Europe with churches on the reverse, which have been linked to specific churches in the minting city, like this 14th century Brabant coin stuck in Leuven: https://books.google.com/books?id=S...elle&f=false I couldn't help wondering if there was a connection between the coin design and civic pride at their new cathedral ( remember there is also some marketing involved here... Burgos was a stop on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela already for a few hundred years before the Gothic cathedral was built). Edited by tdziemia
07/10/2019 8:05 pm
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