Castile

カスティーリャ ／ castile　—　People & places

A kingdom of the Iberian peninsula, the core of what became Spain.

Gold maravedí of Alfonso VIII1174–1217 (held to be struck at Toledo) Eight reales of Potosí1556–1598 (Philip II)

A kingdom that faced south. Daily accounts were kept in maravedís, a name inherited from the gold coins of the Almoravids. In the second half of the twelfth century, Alfonso VIII struck gold maravedís in Toledo with inscriptions entirely in Arabic.

Peter I, who reigned from 1350 to 1369, introduced the silver real, setting one real at three maravedís. During the reign of Henry IV in the fifteenth century, minting permits were issued indiscriminately; chronicles report the number of mints reached one hundred and fifty.

⚠ Aragon's model was Italian gold, and even after the royal marriage, the crowns, parliaments, and mints remained separate. A single country called 'medieval Spain' did not exist anywhere.