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Navarrese denier–libra and real accounting: research record

Evidence coverage: 1198–1828. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

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Currency continuity

Navarrese denier–libra and real accounting

CUR-V31-NAVARRE-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: 1198–1828; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Frankish denier–livre reckoningregional currency continuity · qualified · 800–1198
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Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Latest research

Earlier account evidence

A 31 December 1198 royal receipt acknowledges 70, 000 sanchete sueldos from the bishop of Pamplona and declares payment satisfied. This directly establishes a Navarrese monetary payment unit.

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Earlier account evidence

Tudela’s monedaje charter assesses two morabetinos, expressly equivalent to 15 Navarrese sanchete sueldos per fiscal household; its collection enters subsequent treasury accounting.

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Earlier account evidence

The surviving monedaje register documents a levy of eight sanchete sueldos per household.

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Earlier account evidence

The ordinance requires taxes, rents and sales in prescribed strong money and values existing carlines against it. Its Tours-model coinage prescription has unproved implementation.

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Earlier account evidence

The 22 October 1356 order requires merchandise dealings in white carlines while accepting black carlines at 22 to 12. Fiscal ledgers also convert black into white accounting. These are evidenced conventions, not additional denomination nodes.

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Earlier account evidence

The 30 March 1524 provision requires prices and sale contracts in Navarrese account denominations. The account libra equals 20 sueldos/240 dineros; Castilian silver is assigned a Navarrese valuation.

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Earlier account evidence

Eighteenth-century accounting tables retain Navarrese libras, reales and their component denominations as a separate reckoning, with explicit Castilian equivalents.

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Earlier account evidence

Reform proposals to suppress traditional account denominations failed; merchants objected in part because existing private loans were expressed in them.

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Earlier account evidence

The 1828 Cortes reconsidered the 1818 account reform because older reales sencillos persisted in contracts and public books; restoring that convention expressly protected pre-existing contracts.

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Earlier account evidence

Spanish extraordinary war contributions imposed on Navarre in 1838 and 1840 were stated in reales de vellón. This establishes Spanish fiscal accounting alongside the local tradition, not a documented conversion of every local obligation.

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frankish_navarre

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1198supported

A 31 December 1198 royal receipt acknowledges 70, 000 sanchete sueldos from the bishop of Pamplona and declares payment satisfied. This directly establishes a Navarrese monetary payment unit.

C1919
1264supported

Tudela’s monedaje charter assesses two morabetinos, expressly equivalent to 15 Navarrese sanchete sueldos per fiscal household; its collection enters subsequent treasury accounting.

C1920
1330supported

The surviving monedaje register documents a levy of eight sanchete sueldos per household.

C1921
1355supported

The ordinance requires taxes, rents and sales in prescribed strong money and values existing carlines against it. Its Tours-model coinage prescription has unproved implementation.

C1922
1356supported

The 22 October 1356 order requires merchandise dealings in white carlines while accepting black carlines at 22 to 12. Fiscal ledgers also convert black into white accounting. These are evidenced conventions, not additional denomination nodes.

C1923
1524supported

The 30 March 1524 provision requires prices and sale contracts in Navarrese account denominations. The account libra equals 20 sueldos/240 dineros; Castilian silver is assigned a Navarrese valuation.

C1924
1737–1760supported

Eighteenth-century accounting tables retain Navarrese libras, reales and their component denominations as a separate reckoning, with explicit Castilian equivalents.

C1925
1795supported

Reform proposals to suppress traditional account denominations failed; merchants objected in part because existing private loans were expressed in them.

C1926
1828supported

The 1828 Cortes reconsidered the 1818 account reform because older reales sencillos persisted in contracts and public books; restoring that convention expressly protected pre-existing contracts.

C1927
Evidence & research notes 12 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1919

A 31 December 1198 royal receipt acknowledges 70, 000 sanchete sueldos from the bishop of Pamplona and declares payment satisfied. This directly establishes a Navarrese monetary payment unit.

José Goñi Gaztambide · Los obispos de Pamplona del siglo XIII (1957) Citation S1012 · Open source ↗

Appendix 1, p.207; original:Archivo Capitular de Pamplona, II Episcopi 56.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1920

Tudela’s monedaje charter assesses two morabetinos, expressly equivalent to 15 Navarrese sanchete sueldos per fiscal household; its collection enters subsequent treasury accounting.

Juan Carrasco · El impuesto del monedaje en el reino de Navarra (ca.1243–1355): fiscalidad, demografía, historia monetaria (2011) Citation S1013 · Open source ↗

pp.64–65, notes 27–28; García Arancón, TeobaldoII, doc.44.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1921

The surviving monedaje register documents a levy of eight sanchete sueldos per household.

Juan Carrasco Pérez · Crisis, ordenanzas monetarias y Tabla de Cambios en el reino de Navarra (1329–1360) (2009) Citation S1014 · Open source ↗

p.109, note 6; AGN Comptos register 28; collection commenced 16 January 1330.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1922

The ordinance requires taxes, rents and sales in prescribed strong money and values existing carlines against it. Its Tours-model coinage prescription has unproved implementation.

Juan Carrasco Pérez · Crisis, ordenanzas monetarias y Tabla de Cambios en el reino de Navarra (1329–1360) (2009) Citation S1014 · Open source ↗

pp.114–115, note 21; AMPbox 16, no.124 A; Cierbide/Ramos, doc.162.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1923

The 22 October 1356 order requires merchandise dealings in white carlines while accepting black carlines at 22 to 12. Fiscal ledgers also convert black into white accounting. These are evidenced conventions, not additional denomination nodes.

Juan Carrasco Pérez · Crisis, ordenanzas monetarias y Tabla de Cambios en el reino de Navarra (1329–1360) (2009) Citation S1014 · Open source ↗

p.116, note 28:AGN Comptos register 81, f.27 v; p.115, note 23.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1924

The 30 March 1524 provision requires prices and sale contracts in Navarrese account denominations. The account libra equals 20 sueldos/240 dineros; Castilian silver is assigned a Navarrese valuation.

José María de Francisco Olmos · Navarra y las reformas monetarias de Felipe V (2007) Citation S1015 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77; AGN Monedas, pesas y medidas, leg.1, carp.5 bis.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1925

Eighteenth-century accounting tables retain Navarrese libras, reales and their component denominations as a separate reckoning, with explicit Castilian equivalents.

José María de Francisco Olmos · Navarra y las reformas monetarias de Felipe V (2007) Citation S1015 · Open source ↗

pp.93–95, section 5.2; compilation sources explained p.89, note 29, and 1760 manual explicitly cited p.95.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1926

Reform proposals to suppress traditional account denominations failed; merchants objected in part because existing private loans were expressed in them.

Mikel Sorauren · Política monetaria en el Reino de Navarra al final del antiguo régimen (1747–1838), Príncipe de Viana 49, 185(1988), 641–658 Citation S1017 · Open source ↗

pp.656–657, notes 53–56.

Source access and limitations

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

Read scholarly article through a public text mirror, especially final four pages.

Monetary ratios in garbled OCR are excluded unless independently corroborated.

Supported C1927

The 1828 Cortes reconsidered the 1818 account reform because older reales sencillos persisted in contracts and public books; restoring that convention expressly protected pre-existing contracts.

Mikel Sorauren · Política monetaria en el Reino de Navarra al final del antiguo régimen (1747–1838), Príncipe de Viana 49, 185(1988), 641–658 Citation S1017 · Open source ↗

pp.657–658, note 58, referring to commission reportAGN Moneda, pesos y medidas, leg.2, carp.56.

Source access and limitations

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

Read scholarly article through a public text mirror, especially final four pages.

Monetary ratios in garbled OCR are excluded unless independently corroborated.

Supported C1928

Spanish extraordinary war contributions imposed on Navarre in 1838 and 1840 were stated in reales de vellón. This establishes Spanish fiscal accounting alongside the local tradition, not a documented conversion of every local obligation.

Francisco Santos Escribano · Combates y miseria en Navarra. La guerra carlista que nunca termina(1833–1852) Citation S1018 · Open source ↗

p.417, notes 8–9; dispute and 1842 petitionp.418, note 10.

Source access and limitations

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

Supported C1958

Later Spanish adoption is historically expected but its account-substitution operation is not established by the inspected evidence.

Mikel Sorauren · Política monetaria en el Reino de Navarra al final del antiguo régimen (1747–1838), Príncipe de Viana 49, 185(1988), 641–658 Citation S1017 · Open source ↗

pp.657–658; pp.417–418

Source access and limitations

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

Read scholarly article through a public text mirror, especially final four pages.

Monetary ratios in garbled OCR are excluded unless independently corroborated.

Francisco Santos Escribano · Combates y miseria en Navarra. La guerra carlista que nunca termina(1833–1852) Citation S1018 · Open source ↗

pp.657–658; pp.417–418

Source access and limitations

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

Qualified C1991

The regional denier–solidus–libra system has Carolingian ancestry. This compressed ancestry link leaves intervening stages and the immediate parent unresolved; it does not establish direct siblinghood.

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

Printed pp. 6, 11–16; PDF pages 42, 47–52

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.

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