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Valencian account money: research record

Evidence coverage: 1247–1790. 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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Valencian account money

CUR-V31-VALENCIAN-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: 1247–1790; 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.

Latest research

Earlier account evidence

The new Valencian money served Valencia and Mallorca; sou-and-pound reckoning is traced to Jaime I.

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Earlier account evidence

A Palma will required repayment of 21 pounds of Valencian reials held under a commanda charter.

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Earlier account evidence

Valencian sou-and-pound accounting continued after Nueva Planta. Political annexation does not supply an account-unit ending.

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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

The reported Valencian-sou exchange equivalents in Barcelona and Jaca money changed between 1247 and 1310. These were distinct local account systems, not fixed scales of one currency.

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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 Valencian accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6 identifies Carolingian-derived accounts and their regional diner basis. Intermediates and conversion terms remain open; 800–1300 is a research envelope, not a foundation date.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1247supported

The new Valencian money served Valencia and Mallorca; sou-and-pound reckoning is traced to Jaime I.

C1905
1288supported

A Palma will required repayment of 21 pounds of Valencian reials held under a commanda charter.

C1906
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.

C1908
Evidence & research notes 7 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1905

The new Valencian money served Valencia and Mallorca; sou-and-pound reckoning is traced to Jaime I.

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

pp.129–130; account-system foundation, not merely coin date

Source access and limitations

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

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

Supported C1906

A Palma will required repayment of 21 pounds of Valencian reials held under a commanda charter.

Robert I. Burns, S.J. · Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250–1350 (1996) Citation S1003 · Open source ↗

Chapter 4, Palma de Mallorca; Zalema son of Aaron b. Aarde, 6 July 1288

Source access and limitations

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

Manuscript images not inspected.

Supported C1907

Valencian sou-and-pound accounting continued after Nueva Planta. Political annexation does not supply an account-unit ending.

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

p.130

Source access and limitations

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

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

Supported C1908

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 C1938

The reported Valencian-sou exchange equivalents in Barcelona and Jaca money changed between 1247 and 1310. These were distinct local account systems, not fixed scales of one currency.

Robert I. Burns, S.J. · Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250–1350 (1996) Citation S1003 · Open source ↗

Introduction, monetary units and official exchange table discussion

Source access and limitations

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

Manuscript images not inspected.

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.

Qualified C2098

Qualified Frankish ancestry of Valencian accounting through the Crown of Catalonia-Aragon: MEC6 identifies Carolingian-derived accounts and their regional diner basis. Intermediates and conversion terms remain open; 800–1300 is a research envelope, 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 C1937

The reported Valencian-sou exchange equivalents in Barcelona and Jaca money changed between 1247 and 1310. These were distinct local account systems, not fixed scales of one currency.

Robert I. Burns, S.J. · Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250–1350 (1996) Citation S1003 · Open source ↗

Introduction, monetary units and official exchange table discussion

Source access and limitations

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

Manuscript images not inspected.

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