{{Short description|Type of Castilian coin (13th-16th c.)}} {{Distinguish|Coronado (disambiguation){{!}}Coronado}} [[File:Sancho IV cornado 22293.jpg|thumb|Cornado minted in Toledo during the reign of Sancho IV of Castile (1284–1295)]] [[File:Fernando VI 4 cornados 20369.jpg|thumb|Navarran cornado minted in 1757, during the reign of Ferdinand VI]] '''Cornado''' is the common name of several Castilian coins made of copper or billon (an alloy of silver and copper),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.maravedis.org/tiposmonedas.html |title=Tipos de monedas emitidas en España |trans-title=Types of Currencies Issued in Spain |website=maravedis.org |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427124202/http://www.maravedis.org/tiposmonedas.html |archive-date=27 April 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 July 2017 }}</ref> minted from the time of Sancho IV of Castile (13th century) until that of the Catholic Monarchs (16th century).
The name ''cornado'' was derived from the fact that the coin's obverse depicted the crowned head of the king.
In 1286, ten cornados were equivalent to one maravedí, and eight cornados to a {{ill|Sueldo jaqués|es|lt=sueldo}}. Later versions were coined with a lower alloy quality.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mundimoneda.com/glosario_numismatico_c.htm |title=Glosario C |website=mundimoneda.com |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319020229/http://www.mundimoneda.com/glosario_numismatico_c.htm |archive-date=19 March 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref> This led to the proverb ''no vale un cornado'', equivalent to the English expression "not worth a farthing".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA79 |title=A Counting-house Dictionary |last=Bithell |first=Richard |publisher=Routledge |page=79 |year=1893 |access-date=28 July 2017 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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