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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 3368462, member: 56653&quot;]Usually the dineros of Pedro de Aragon/&quot;el de Huesca&quot; are quite in bad shape -- bad metal, bad strike or hard wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>This one of Aureo &amp; Calico is quite an exception:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]893443[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Specs:</p><p><br /></p><p>AR17mm 1.06g, dinero vellon, minted at Jaca or Huesca(?) cca. 1095-1100.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peter was a warrior king, heavily involved in the Spanish Reconquista. He fought and won alongside Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid) at Bairen in 1095. That same year he conquered Huesca, added it to his domains, and became known as „El de Huesca.” In 1098 he married Maria Rodriguez, one of the daughters of Rodrigo El Cid. In 1101 he styled his own campaign against the muslim Zaragoza taifa after the First Crusade in the Holy Land and lead an army of Catalonian and Frankish knights conquering territories as far as the walls of Zaragoza and Tudela, enlarging the kingdoms of Aragon and Navarra. After this campaign he was also referred to as Crucifer (cross-bearer).</p><p><br /></p><p>This type is a continuation of the Aragonese dinero of Sancho Ramirez. As Pedro moved his capital from Jaca to Huesca in 1097, it is possible that his coinage (including this specimen) was minted there after 1097. The dineros minted under his name are rather scarce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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