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Galician 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.

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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.

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Earlier account evidence

A church sale specifies 25 Gallician solidi, discharged in cloth,silver and cattle.

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Earlier account evidence

Sobrado charter records an estate price of eight solidi according to Galician usage.

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Northwestern Iberia: a specific unresolved transmission

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.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

905supported

A church sale specifies 25 Gallician solidi, discharged in cloth,silver and cattle.

C1893
962supported

Sobrado 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.

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