SPAIN - CASTILE & LEON - ENRIQUE IV - (1454-1474). Billon Dinero. Toledo Mint

Hello.:hail: I got this coin.


SPAIN - CASTILE & LEON - ENRIQUE IV
Enrique IV - The Impotent (1454-1474). Billon Dinero. Toledo Mint. ENRICVS DEI GRACIA/XPS VINCIT XPS REG. Type 28a, Cayon #1719.

Looking for cataloging data, I found the following. In “Ancien Coins”:
“This coin type has an important connection to the New World. When archaeologists excavated La Isabela, the site where part of the crew of Columbus's second voyage spent a few years on the island of Hispanola, this type was found more often than any other. Queen Isabella did not strike any small coins in the early part of her reign, so these coins, which had been struck by her elder brother Henry IV, served as the "pennies" of that time.”

The problem is that everything points to an article by Alan Stahl of Princeton University, located in: "Coins from the excavations at La Isabella, D.R.", published in the American Journal of Numismatics Ser, 5-6 pp.189-209.

That this type of currency was found in "Isabella" is a funny thing, even stranger to me. So I'm looking for the full article. Does anyone have by chance?. I would be very grateful if someone could inform me about it.


[FONT=&amp]I also found[/FONT][FONT=&amp]this in : http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78

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Fig. 70. Once the concretion was removed from this encrusted Spanish coin, details emerged which helped identify and date this copper coin, a blanca, minted between 1471 and 1474 during the reign of Henry IV. Corrosion product (left), Obverse side of coin (right).


Fig. 71. Type 28 blanca minted in Cuenca, Spain 1471-1474. (From Cayon and Castan 1991, not to scale).
Fifty-nine blancas of this type were unearthed during excavations at La Isabela in the Domincan 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. Analysis by atomic absorption and emmission spectography of the San Salvador coin determined that it contained 3.97% silver and 95.7% copper (Brill 1987).

Does anyone know anything more about it?
Thank you.
Best regards.
Daniel

 

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$10 Doug, you save $4 from the original price.

Dang old eyes, huh?

 

No doubt. I found a group lot of them once on Ebay and paid maybe $.50 a copy for a long run of these. Always interesting reading, and sometimes invaluable information.

 

Well: ¡¡Thanks!! , but in my counrty are a "little" problem with the "dollar" the Importations etc etc...I ask, but I'm not sure I can make the transaction. Or that I get. Anyway I'll try, do not lose much if it does not.And I will continue investigating on my own.
Thanks for all to both.
A hug.
Daniel