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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 3502941, member: 56653"]Two dineros from the height of the Reconquista. Although very well represented in private and public collections, one does not see the coins of Sancho Ramirez of Aragon (and Navarre) offered too often in auctions, and that is taking into account the Spanish dealers and auctioneers. But to keep with the topic of the Reconquista, here is a dinero jaques for Sancho Ramirez, Pedro's father and King of Aragon and Pamplona-Navarre: [ATTACH=full]928342[/ATTACH] AR17mm, 0.98g, dinero jaques de vellon, minted at Jaca, after 1076 or very likely cca. 1090-1094.SANCIVS . RЄX; bare-headed bust leftARA - GON; Cross above tree, flanked by crescent to the left and pellet to the right.Crusafont 202. In 1076 with the accession to the throne of Navarre, Sancho Ramirez calls himself "Rex Aragonensium et Pampilonensium" and starts minting the first coins of Aragon and Navarre, in order to celebrate and manifest his power and prestige as a Christian sovereign. During his reign he continuously tried to expand his territory, even at the expense of fellow Christian rulers, which put him at odds with Rodrigo El Cid in the early 1080s. He died during a campaign of conquest in 1094, under the walls of Huesca. This particular specimen seems to be of a later debased issue, possibly in the late 1080s early 1090s. It was preserved by the collector in its original uncleaned condition.[/QUOTE]