← Read the currency articleGalician solidus accounting: research record
Evidence coverage: AD 905–AD 962. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
← Locate this currency on the treeCurrency continuity
Galician solidus accounting
CUR-V31-GALICIAN-SOLIDUS · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: AD 905–AD 962; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Children / successors
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Latest research
Northwestern Iberia: a specific unresolved transmissionTodesca proposes Frankish denarii behind some Galician and Astur-Leonese silver reckoning, but presents this as a hypothesis. The name gallicanus, possible French coins and twelve-part accounting do not settle which predecessor unit was inherited. The Visigothic-to-northwestern-Iberian boundary therefore remains open; neither a disconnected origin nor extinction is inferred.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
905supportedA church sale specifies 25 Gallician solidi, discharged in cloth,silver and cattle.
C1893 962supportedSobrado charter records an estate price of eight solidi according to Galician usage.
C1894
Evidence & research notes 4 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C1893
A church sale specifies 25 Gallician solidi, discharged in cloth,silver and cattle.
James J.Todesca · It Touches All: Coinage and Monetary Policy in León-Castile to 1230, FordhamPhD 1996 Citation S993 ·
Open source ↗p49note61:FlorianoCumbreño,DiplomáticaespañolaII334,doc182
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1894
Sobrado charter records an estate price of eight solidi according to Galician usage.
James J.Todesca · It Touches All: Coinage and Monetary Policy in León-Castile to 1230, FordhamPhD 1996 Citation S993 ·
Open source ↗p46note56:Loscertales,Sobrado91,doc57
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1954
No complete account-unit termination established in this pass.
James J.Todesca · It Touches All: Coinage and Monetary Policy in León-Castile to 1230, FordhamPhD 1996 Citation S993 ·
Open source ↗See account observation.
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Qualified C2095
Todesca proposes Frankish denarii behind some Galician and Astur-Leonese silver reckoning, but presents this as a hypothesis. The name gallicanus, possible French coins and twelve-part accounting do not settle which predecessor unit was inherited. The Visigothic-to-northwestern-Iberian boundary therefore remains open; neither a disconnected origin nor extinction is inferred.
James J.Todesca · It Touches All: Coinage and Monetary Policy in León-Castile to 1230, FordhamPhD 1996 Citation S993 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 49–55, especially pp. 50–54: competing readings of gallicanus, silver-account charters, and conditional Frankish-coin hypothesis; Printed pp. 168–170 and 178–180; Roman models, proposed functions, and continued solidus accounting
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Andrew Kurt · Visigothic Currency in its Making and Movement (2019) Citation S1033 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 49–55, especially pp. 50–54: competing readings of gallicanus, silver-account charters, and conditional Frankish-coin hypothesis; Printed pp. 168–170 and 178–180; Roman models, proposed functions, and continued solidus accounting
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.