old coin maybe spain? [solved]

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At first glance: Leon and Castille

weight and dimensions would be fine (as always)
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
Indeed,
A blanca or half blanca minted at Sevilla by a king of Castille and Leon (I can't read its name : Enrique III, IV or Juan II ?)
oops - it is approximately 25mm- irregular not perfectly round and thin!
Blanca of Enrique III minted in Seville
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces122741.html

Can you upload images, with white background, of your coin to the catalog?
Referee for Spain, Iberia (ancient), Suebi Kingdom and Visigothic Kingdom
You are probably right about the ruler, however this is a different type of legend on this one, so he should create another page instead :

Observe : + E [...]I[?VS :] REX : CASTELLE
Reverse : [...ICVS] : REX : LEGIO[...]
Quote: "Cycnos"​You are probably right about the ruler, however this is a different type of legend on this one, so he should create another page instead :

​Observe : + E [...]I[?VS :] REX : CASTELLE
​Reverse : [...ICVS] : REX : LEGIO[...]
​Alvarez Burgos (602), Cayon ed.12 (4), Vidal Quadras (6154) have variants with these types of the legends
+ENRICVS REX CASTE
+ENRICVS REX LEGIONI

The basic type is
+ENRICVS DEI GRACIA in both sides

Here you can see an example with the type of legends of the thecabinetguy's, with catalog number AB#602.1
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5299670
Referee for Spain, Iberia (ancient), Suebi Kingdom and Visigothic Kingdom
i think thats it- sorry i am not able film with white background my camera reacts to the light causing coin to look odd color. blue seem to be ok
Status changed to Solved (thecabinetguy, 20 Nov 2018, 13:25)
Quote: "thecabinetguy"​i think thats it- sorry i am not able film with white background my camera reacts to the light causing coin to look odd color. blue seem to be ok
​Don't worry. Upload the photos with blue background. I'll edit them to change to white.
Referee for Spain, Iberia (ancient), Suebi Kingdom and Visigothic Kingdom
is this ok?

Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
Quote: "zegeri"Alvarez Burgos (602), Cayon ed.12 (4), Vidal Quadras (6154) have variants with these types of the legends
​+ENRICVS REX CASTE
​+ENRICVS REX LEGIONI

​The basic type is
​+ENRICVS DEI GRACIA in both sides

​Here you can see an example with the type of legends of the thecabinetguy's, with catalog number AB#602.1
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5299670
Every catalog follows their own rules.
If we want to keep a consistency in the catalog we shouldn't follow the authors rules, but the ones made for Numista.
The way this author group them in its catalog don't fit with the way we usually do it here.

On Numista, we decided to group them by type (one page = one type).

A type is defined by what was approved and ordered before the minting process :
At this period it was the way the coin should look like (design) and the informations that should appear on it ; regarding the lettering it will be what kind of legend should be used.
Minor changements that appeared during the realisation of the dies like the style of the engraver, the abbreviations he made, the changement of year, etc, are considered as variants : they are group inside the same page.
Things that happened during the minting process are considered as errors and are not referenced on numista.

On those coins, the legends that was ordered were :
Type 1) Enrique III as king of Leon on one side and as king of Castille on the other side
Type 2) Enrique III as a divine person on both sides.

They were probably minted during two different periods.

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