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Mallorcan account money: research record

Evidence coverage: 1310–1790. 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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Currency continuity

Mallorcan account money

CUR-V31-MALLORCAN-ACCOUNT · 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: 1310–1790; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Frankish denier–livre reckoningaccount unit branching · qualified · 800–1300
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

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Earlier account evidence

Royal treasury ledgers record receipts, expenditure and obligations in Mallorcan pounds, sous and diners. Payments denominated in Barcelona money receive Mallorcan equivalents or exchange rates.

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Earlier account evidence

The annual account balance, 8,633 pounds 17 sous, was entered as debt owed to the royal treasurer.

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Earlier account evidence

One account pound comprised twenty sous, each twelve diners; these are subdivisions within the profile.

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Earlier account evidence

A commercial manual separately describes Jaca, Valencian and Mallorcan pound reckoning. It gives conversions among Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia and Castilian vellón; Mallorcan and Catalan pounds are separately valued.

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Earlier account evidence

Mallorcan diners gradually displaced Valencian diners under Jaime II. This is a documented coin succession; the inspected text supplies no conversion rule for outstanding accounts.

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Earlier European account ancestry

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Mallorcan accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6's account-system synthesis supports the older ancestry. This does not establish Valencia as the immediate parent or turn coin replacement into debt conversion. The 800–1300 research envelope is not a foundation date.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1310–1330supported

Royal treasury ledgers record receipts, expenditure and obligations in Mallorcan pounds, sous and diners. Payments denominated in Barcelona money receive Mallorcan equivalents or exchange rates.

C1909
1318supported

The annual account balance, 8,633 pounds 17 sous, was entered as debt owed to the royal treasurer.

C1910
1310–1330supported

One account pound comprised twenty sous, each twelve diners; these are subdivisions within the profile.

C1911
1790supported

A commercial manual separately describes Jaca, Valencian and Mallorcan pound reckoning. It gives conversions among Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia and Castilian vellón; Mallorcan and Catalan pounds are separately valued.

C1912
Evidence & research notes 6 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1909

Royal treasury ledgers record receipts, expenditure and obligations in Mallorcan pounds, sous and diners. Payments denominated in Barcelona money receive Mallorcan equivalents or exchange rates.

Maria Llompart Bibiloni · Un análisis formal sobre los Llibres del Compte, de Reebudes i de Dades de la Procuración Real del Reino de Mallorca (1310–30), De Computis 7 (2007) Citation S1004 · Open source ↗

pp.108–110,115; local accounting identity explicitly named on p.115

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Underlying manuscripts and Sastre edition not independently inspected.

Supported C1910

The annual account balance, 8,633 pounds 17 sous, was entered as debt owed to the royal treasurer.

Maria Llompart Bibiloni · Un análisis formal sobre los Llibres del Compte, de Reebudes i de Dades de la Procuración Real del Reino de Mallorca (1310–30), De Computis 7 (2007) Citation S1004 · Open source ↗

p.112; AHRM RP3038, citing Sastre Moll 1986 II pp.269–270

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Underlying manuscripts and Sastre edition not independently inspected.

Supported C1911

One account pound comprised twenty sous, each twelve diners; these are subdivisions within the profile.

Maria Llompart Bibiloni · Un análisis formal sobre los Llibres del Compte, de Reebudes i de Dades de la Procuración Real del Reino de Mallorca (1310–30), De Computis 7 (2007) Citation S1004 · Open source ↗

p.109

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Underlying manuscripts and Sastre edition not independently inspected.

Supported C1912

A commercial manual separately describes Jaca, Valencian and Mallorcan pound reckoning. It gives conversions among Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia and Castilian vellón; Mallorcan and Catalan pounds are separately valued.

Manuel Poy y Comes · Llave aritmética y algebraica (Barcelona: Francisco Suriá y Burgada,1790) Citation S1006 · Open source ↗

pp.241–242,283,290

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1940

Mallorcan diners gradually displaced Valencian diners under Jaime II. This is a documented coin succession; the inspected text supplies no conversion rule for outstanding accounts.

Felipe Mateu y Llopis · La moneda de los Reinos de Valencia y Mallorca, Numisma 147–149 (1977),123–148 Citation S1005 · Open source ↗

pp.142–143

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Numerical subdivision errors in p.130 OCR are not used.

Qualified C2099

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Mallorcan accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6's account-system synthesis supports the older ancestry. This does not establish Valencia as the immediate parent or turn coin replacement into debt conversion. The 800–1300 research envelope is not a foundation date.

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer and Philip Grierson · Medieval European Coinage, volume 6 (2013) Citation S1032 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 5, 11–13; general Carolingian-derived accounting and Crown of Catalonia-Aragon account standard

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Publisher preview PDF, introductory account-system passages inspected; entire volume not inspected.

Publisher preview inspected, printed pp. 5 and 11–13.

Separate chapters on Valencia and Majorca are outside this preview; no immediate local parent or conversion decree is claimed.

Supported C1939

Mallorcan diners gradually displaced Valencian diners under Jaime II. This is a documented coin succession; the inspected text supplies no conversion rule for outstanding accounts.

Felipe Mateu y Llopis · La moneda de los Reinos de Valencia y Mallorca, Numisma 147–149 (1977),123–148 Citation S1005 · Open source ↗

pp.142–143

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Numerical subdivision errors in p.130 OCR are not used.

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