Today we will be investigating Bertrand de la Lande, a citizen of Bayonne and lord of the village of Gayon in Bearn. Bertrand was appointed mintmaster of the mints of Navarre and Bearn on November 30, 1589, a few months after King Henry III of Navarre became King Henry IV of France.
Our Bertrand obtained a six-year loan agreement as head of the mint (Maitre Particulier/Fermier Biarnotarrez) of Morlaas, Pau and Donapaleu. That is, his loan period was due to end on November 30, 1595. But Bertrand's reign was complicated and we will try to tell his anecdotes through the traces of coins that have survived to this day.
It is likely that we can find the first mentions of Bertrand in another Basque mint; although we are not absolutely certain that it is the same person, Bayonne had a mintmaster named Bertrand de la Lande between 1573 and 1582. In the section dedicated to the libertas of Navarre We saw a specimen minted by Bertrand at the mint in his home town of Bayonne, which is still worth seeing.
Silver Franc minted in 1578 at the Bayonne mint (anchor and L as features) – 14.05gr – 34mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.III.DGFRAN.ET.POL.REX.L. 1578 (O Angle Within C Angle)
Obverse: SIT.NOMEN.DOMINI.BENEDICTVM.(Rose)(Anchor)
Rose – Bertrand de la Lande, Mintmaster (1573-1582)
O Izkia C Inside the Izkia – Arnault de Carriere, engraver and rehearser (1568-1590)
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 14, LOT 646 25.03.2011
Or this other beautiful piece:
Silver coin minted in Bayonne in 1576 – 9.39gr – 28.2mm diameter
Found: HENRICS.III.DGFRAN.ET.POL.REX. (Anchor) (Rose)
Front: SIT.NOMEN.DNI.BENEDICTVM. 1576 L
Rose – Bertrand de la Lande, Mintmaster (1573-1582)
Anchor and Star are the hallmarks of the Bayonne Mint.
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 27, LOT 2411 14.10.2014
As mentioned, although we are not completely certain that they are the same person, we do have some indicative traces. Documents from Bearn indicate that Bertrand was a citizen of Bayonne; in addition, in 1590 Arnault de Carriere, who had worked with him in Bayonne during Bertrand's reign, became mintmaster of the Kingdom of Navarre.
Where was Bertrand between 1582 and 1589? At least for the moment I have no trace of him during this period. What seems clear is that when the lord of Bearn and king of Navarre became king of France, Bertrand's experience in a French mint strengthened his candidacy, in order to strengthen the flow of money from the Bearn and Navarre mints and compete with the nearby French mints.
Bertrand borrowed the mints of Morlaas, Pau and Donapaleu for six years, for 42,100 livres, that is, for a little over 7,000 livres per year. I believe that this tribute represented an advance on the seigniorage tax, which according to Adrian Blanchet was paid three times a year, on Candlemas, Devotion and Michaelmas.
This thought is encouraged by the analysis of the accounts presented by Auger de Lagarde, the mintmaster of Morlaas, in 1566, where the sums of the seigniorage and weak money in the accounts presented are around the 1,200 livres that the mintmaster had to pay annually.
This annual deposit or fee would be the minimum benefit that the Chamber of Accounts of the Kingdom of Navarre (the lessor of the mints) expected from the mints in the form of a seigniorage tax; However, if the amount of tax on the coins minted exceeded this minimum, the difference would have to be settled by the mintmaster after the annual accounts.
These payments agreed upon in the rental contract were to be a reflection of the coinage contract signed between the mintmaster and the accounting chamber, which included instructions on the types and quantities of coins to be minted during the mintmaster's term of office.
These contract details were of utmost importance, since while the Chamber of Accounts collected the largest amounts of seigniorage tax from small coins, they were the ones that gave the mintmaster the most work and trouble and the smallest margins. But for the mintmaster, the fastest way to collect the agreed-upon tax was to mint these small coins. Since copper and low-billion coins had the highest percentages of seigniorage tax, these taxes were lower on higher-purity silver coins.
Double Tournoit copper coin minted in 1593 at the Donapaleu mint – 2.63 gr – 18.2mm diameter
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. R (Coat of Arms of Navarre)
Ifrenzua: DOVBLE. TOVRNOIS. 1593
We have knowledge of the double coins minted in Donapaleu in 1593, 1594 and 1595.
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 21, LOT 2130 12.03.2013
In the face of war, crisis or similar unavoidable circumstances, if the days that allowed the silver ore to be mined or the mint to work decreased, the mintmaster was not able to reach the agreed-upon coinage quantities and, as a result, requests for payment reductions were often received.
I have not had the opportunity to see any coinage agreement signed between the Chamber of Accounts and the head of the Donapaleu Mint. Sancho Iturbide's Carlins of Navarre As we did in the previous section, an in-depth analysis of such an agreement would be extremely interesting and we will leave it as a task for the future.
What is clear is that Bertrand de la Lande minted low-value, copper double Tournai coins, billon sizains (six Tournai coins) and billon douzaines (twelve Tournai coins) at the Donapaleu mint.
Double Tournoit copper coin minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 2.71 gr – 17.5 mm diameter
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. R (Coat of Arms of Navarre)
Ifrenzua: DOVBLE. TOVRNOIS. 1594
We have knowledge of the double coins minted in Donapaleu in 1593, 1594 and 1595.
CGB.FR, LOT bry_73106
Copper engravings by Francois Dumas in 1593, 1594 and 1595. of pure Tournai money reported his knowledge in his 1959 work. But neither Duplessy's late-century work nor my own observations have found any trace of these possible simple coins. If anyone has found them, these simple Tournai coins should have the DENIER TOVRNOIS pictorial text and the coat of arms of Navarre instead of the lily flower below on the obverse. Similarly, I have had great difficulty finding the double Tournai coin minted in 1595, until the collector Luis Gomez sent me the following photographs of his specimen:
Double Tournoit copper coin minted in 1595 at the Donapaleu mint
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. R (Coat of Arms of Navarre)
Ifrenzua: DOVBLE. TOVRNOIS. 1595
We have knowledge of the double coins minted in Donapaleu in 1593, 1594 and 1595.
Luis Gomez collection
In Morlaas, Bertrand minted the Bearn Baket (worth ¾ of a penny), the sizains and the douzaines. In Pau, the wheel presses of the mill mint did not mint small coins, only silver quarter escudos.
Billon coin minted in an unspecified year at the Morlaas mint – 0.50 gr – 13.5 mm diameter – These coins contained traces of 26 thousandths of silver
Found: [+ H]ENRI. 4. DGF ET. N[A. REX]
Ifrentzua: GRATIA. DE. SVM. QD [SVM]
During Bertrand's reign, some 950,000 acres of farmland were cultivated.
CGB.FR, INTERNET AUCTION JULY 2020, LOT 589005 28.07.2020
During the reign of Bertrand de la Lande, numerous douzaine (twelve-dime) coins were minted in Donapaleu. Today, we have precise knowledge of the coins minted in 1590, 1591, 1592, 1593 and 1594, but the number of coins minted in 1590 has not reached us. These are the first small coins to bear Bertrand's mark.
Billon douzaine, second variety, minted in 1590 at the Donapaleu mint – 1.96 gr 23 mm diameter
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM 1590 (C Left) (B Left)
C Izkia – Perhaps the engraver's mark, for some Jerome Le Normand, debatable
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
The douzains had a silver content of 240 thousandths (2 drachmas and 21 grains) and a nominal weight of 2,330 grams (105 grains per working mark (otherwise 106, 107 or 108)).
Monnaies d'Antan, Auction N°29, LOT 516 29.05.2021
In this first year of production (1590), 472,079 such dozen copies were produced in Donapaleu. A few of these copies are known as the first variant, as they present two letters on both sides of the coat of arms:
Billon douzaine, first variety, minted in 1590 at the Donapaleu mint – 1.93 gr 22.5 mm diameter
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM 1590 (C Left?) (B Left?)
C Izkia – Perhaps the engraver's mark, for some Jerome Le Normand, debatable
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
The douzains had a silver content of 240 thousandths and a nominal weight of 2.399 grams.
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 9, LOT 618 23.10.2009
But problems were also coming and in this case, the problem was caused by the minting of the aforementioned sizain, coins with a value of six ducats. According to the preserved minting accounts, these sizain were minted in Donapaleu in 1589 (41,669 pieces) and in 1590 (179,154 pieces). They were also minted in Morlaas in the same years, around 120,000 pieces between the two years.
These coins were supposed to contain 121 thousandths (one penny and eleven grains) of silver and have a nominal weight of 1.699 grams (144 grains per Mark). But, Catherine, as stated in a document signed in Pau in 1591 by King Henry's sister and viceroy of Bearn and Navarre, “Following complaints received against Bertrand de la Lande of Gayon, mintmaster of the mints of Navarre and Bearn, concerning the recently minted 6-dime coins, the defective coins were collected and new coins were minted with them, with the result that the common people are now satisfied” (Document B3100, Archives départementales des Pyrénées‐Atlantiques).
All the coins were probably defective; we have no trace of the six-dollar coins from Donapaleu today, and I only know of two coins from Morlaas.
Billon sizain minted in an unspecified year at the Morlaas mint – 1.57gr 19.5 mm diameter
Found: HENRI. 4. DG FRANC. ET. NA. REX (DB Monogram)
Hell: (Star) PESSES.DE.SIES.DINERS
(Star) – Engraver Guillaume Lamy
I know of two specimens of 6 coins from Morlaas, no specimens from Donapaleu are known.
CGB.FR, LIVE AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2022, LOT 750734 06.09.2022
The six-drachma sizains were not minted again at the mints of Bearn and Navarre. It was not a pleasant episode for our mintmaster Bertrand, who probably had to convert all the sizains into douzaines just like that.
But we will have the opportunity to enjoy Bertrand de la Lande's work in its entirety by looking at the numerous silver coins minted during his reign, and by looking at his quarter and eighth shields.
Features of these coins the year of the three kings We saw this in the section dedicated to the subject. The mintmaster Roger de Vergez signed a six-year lease agreement for the mints of Bearn and Navarre on June 23, 1585, for 42,100 livres. For reasons unknown to us, this agreement was not fulfilled until the end of its term and on November 30, 1589, our Bertrand signed a new contract. As mentioned, Henry III. was already King of Navarre, and Henry IV. of France.
Roger de Vergez did not strike any coins in the name of Henry IV and Bertrand de la Lande did not strike any coins in the name of Henry II or III. As the 1589 issues struck under Bertrand's direction are relatively scarce, we can conclude that they began work around the date of the signing of the treaty.
From the very beginning, Bertrand's Donapaleu specimens had a couple of clear characteristics:
- Henry's fourth number was written in Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals. Roman numerals were used at the mints of Morlaas and Pau.
- As a mark of its mint, a B will appear above the royal crown to the right. In the mints of Morlaas and Bearn, a BDL monogram will appear next to the year of manufacture.
- The Roman numerals II-II or V-III, indicating the value of a quarter or eighth of a escudo, appeared on both sides of the coat of arms, for the first time on coins from Donapaleus.
- Image text from Ifrentzu GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM. will always be the correct text; the Bearn mints have already been using GRATIA.DEI.SVM for some years.Q.ID.SVM. texture was transformed.
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1589 at the Donapaleu Mint – 8.88gr 30mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX.
Ifrenzu: (Letter B) FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1589 (letter C or moon)
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, Mail Bid Sale N°16 22.11.2014
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Pau Mint – 9.51 gr 29 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.III.DGFRANC.ET.NAVA.REX.DB Monogram (Dominus Bearni)
Ifrentzua: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.Q.ID.SVM.1591 (BDL Monogram) II – II – Star
BDL Monogram – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
Star – Guillaume Lamy, engraver and coiner alike
EDITIONS V. GADOURY, SPRING AUCTION 2022, LOT 424 12.03.2022
I have discussed the meaning of the crescent or crescent moon above the crown in other sections dedicated to silver shields. Although it is attributed to the engraver Jerome Le Normand, this engraver died in 1581 and I have not found any evidence that any of his sons or relatives continued his work as an engraver in Donapaleu. However, you will find this attribution in many books and texts, which, at least for me, is very doubtful.
Looking at all the coins analyzed in recent months, here too Louis on his son's coins I have noticed something similar to what I have seen. Over the course of seven years of coinage, the work of the engravers was quite homogeneous and repetitive, especially on the obverse side.
The images of the coat of arms and the crown, or the mottos that the imagetexts illustrate, are repeated in this pattern, with one exception. When working on the words of the imagetext on the opposite side, that is, when making the summaries of the text DEI GRATIA FRANCORVM ET NAVARRE REX, we can find several variations. I think that while they were working on different dies with punches, by the time they reached this location of the imagetext on the die, they were finishing the motto according to the available space. As a result, and after analyzing the different coins, the following variations of the motto can be found:
- DEI.G.FRAN.ET.NAVAR.RX
- DEI.G.FRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
- CALL.G.FRAN.E.NAVAR.RX
- DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
- DGFRAN.E.NAVARE.REX
- DGFRAN.E.NAVARRE.REX
- DGFRAN.ET.NAVAR.REX
There are two developments worth mentioning in the Ifrentzu period. After several years of good general production, there was a break in the good repetition of the coin during the year 1594. The mintmark changed from a small B to a small L and the motto GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM. also had two more different variations in this year:
- FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.SVM.
- GRATIA.DEI.SVM.Q.SVM. (Motto that usually appears on the Eighth Shield)
Silver quarter coin minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.57 gr 28.5mm Diameter
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and The letter L on the crown)
L Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, AUCTION 15, LOT 624 16.05.2014
In this aforementioned year of 1594, I suspect that the problems of the mintmaster Bertrand de la Lande were piling up. The coins from Donapaleu, minted in 1595, are very scarce and do not show Bertrand's characteristic L or B. The same is true of the coins minted in Pau or Morlaas.
Silver quarter Ezkutu minted in 1595 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.32 gr
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1595 (C) On both sides of the crown, No B or L letters)
Bertrand de la Lande without the Mintmaster's permission
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHAN KNOPIK Collection from Monaco
In the case of the Morlaas mint, a limited and unusual mintage of silver half francs (28,351 pieces) and quarters (1,725 pieces) was produced this year. These too show no trace of Bertrand's mark.
Silver half franc minted in Morlaas in 1595 – 6.93 gr – 28 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.III. DG FRANC. ET. NAVA. REX (DB Monogram) Bearn Cow
Ifrentzua: + FREE CALL.SVM.ID.QVOD.SVM 1595
CGB.FR, LIVE AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2021, LOT 676269 07.09.2021
The Chamber of Accounts of Navarre signed a new loan agreement with Jacques de Casso, the mintmaster of Bordeaux, on December 20, 1595. According to this agreement, the mintmaster Casso received a six-year loan from the mints of Morlaas and Pau, in exchange for an annual payment of 4,000 francs.
Seven days later, on December 27, 1595, Captain Jean Du Faur of Oloroe received a six-year loan from the Donapaleu mint for an annual payment of 2,150 livres. Between the two agreements, the account was about to receive 36,900 livres over the six-year period; considerably less than the 42,100 livres signed during the time of Roger de Vergez or Bertrand de la Lande. Profits were falling and here too, we will have something to analyze and learn about the work of the mintmasters Jaques de Casso and Jean Du Faur!
Before we end, here is a look at the silver shields of Donapaleu by Bertrand de la Lande used in the preparation of this entry. For those who wish to delve deeper, I have presented them after the bibliography. On Egin!!
1589 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 1595
Bibliography:
Histoire monétaire du Béarn – Jules Adrien Blanchet – 1893 – link
MINT OF NAVARRE AND BEARN – WIKIPEDIA – link
Documents pour servir a l'histoire monetaire de la Navarre et du Bearn 1562-1629 – Jules Adrien Blanchet – 1886 – link
Les frappes monétaires en Béarn et Basse-Navarre d'après les comptes conservées aux Archives départementales des Basses Pyrénées - Françoise Dumas - 1959 - link
MONNAIES DE FRANCE, DE NAVARRE ET DU BÈARN – Jean Claude Ungar – 2010
LES MONNAIES FRANCAISES ROYALES – Tome 1 et 2 – 2° Edition -1999 -Jean Duplessy (In Memoriam 1929- 2020)
Le livre des monnaies feodales de Béarn et de Navarre – Henri II (III de Navarre) 1572-1589 – Club Numismatique Palois – Serge Salles – link
Extracts from the Registers of the Chamber of Accounts of Pau (XVIe and XVIIe siècles.) – Laussat, M. le baron de (1871). Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Pau – Vol. II série–1, no. 1871–72 – link
1589
We have no account of the coinage of this year. The number of Henry IV coins struck under the sign of Bertrand de la Lande is small and we have no knowledge of the eighth shield. We do know of coins struck in the same year under the sign of Roger de Vegez and in the name of Henry II.
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1589 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.24 gr 29 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1589 (C and B above the crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
IBERCOIN, ONLINE AUCTION 80, LOT 1861 22.03.2023
1590
We do not have a coinage account for this year. The quarter coins have the DEI.G and DG pictorial text variants on the obverse. The eighth coins do not have the Roman numeral pair V-III on the sides of the coat of arms, which is characteristic of the value.
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1590 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.53 gr 30 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.CALL.FRAN.ET.NAVAR.RX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1590 (C and B above the crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 51, LOT 326 09.03.2021
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1590 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.36 gr 29 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1590 (C and B above the crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, AUCTION 7, LOT 584 21.05.2010
Silver Eight Shields minted in 1590 at the Donapaleu Mint – 4.73 gr 24.5 mm diameter – Without the number of eighths
Found: HENRI.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM.1591 (C and B on the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
CGB.FR, LIVE AUCTION JUNE 2020, LOT 567360 16.06.2020
1591
We do not have a coinage account for this year. The quarter coins have the DEI.G and DG pictorial text variants on the obverse. The eighth coins do not have the Roman numeral pair V-III on the sides of the coat of arms, which is characteristic of the value.
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.51 gr 29 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.CALL.G.FRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1591 (C and B above the crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, AUCTION 25, LOT 888 18.05.2019
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.49 gr
Found: HENRICVS.4.CALL.FRAN.E.NAVAR.RX
Hell: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1591 (C Fish, B Fish ?) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
Alde & OGN, Collection François BEAU (Henri II à Henri IV) 07.06.2017
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.26 gr 30 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVARRE.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1591 (B ray above crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, Mail Bid Sale N°13 16.05.2013
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.30 gr 30 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DG.FRAN.E.NAVARRE.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1591 (C and B above the crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
CGB.FR, INTERNET AUCTION APRIL 2022 26.04.2022
Silver Quarter Shield minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu Mint – 9.56 gr 29 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS.4.DG.FRAN.E.NAVARRE.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1591 (B ray above crown) II – II
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
INUMIS, Mail Bid Sale 20 12.03.2013
Silver Eight Shields minted in 1591 at the Donapaleu Mint – 4.69 gr 24 mm diameter – Without the number of eighths
Found: HENRI.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM.1591 (C and B on the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 9, LOT 615 23.10.2009
1592
We do not have a coinage account for this year. The quarter coins only have the DG pictorial text variant on the obverse. The eighth coins have the Roman numeral pair V-III on the sides of the coat of arms, which is a characteristic of the value.
Silver quarter Ezkutu minted in 1592 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.68 gr 30 mm diameter
Found: HENRICVS. 4. D. G. FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1592 (C and B on the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
CGB INTERNET AUCTION OCTOBER 2019 LOT 547622 29.10.2019
Silver Eight Shields minted in 1592 at the Donapaleu Mint – 4.73 gr 24 mm diameter – With the value of one eighth
Found: HENRI.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Obverse: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM.1592 (C and B on the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
CGB.FR, INTERNET AUCTION JANUARY 2023, LOT 778432 24.01.2023
1593
We do not have a coinage account for this year. The quarter coins only have the DG pictorial text variant on the obverse. The eighth coins have the Roman numeral pair V-III on the sides of the coat of arms, which is characteristic of the value, in this example in the form of a reversed III-V.
Silver quarter Ezkutu minted in 1593 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.42 gr
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Obverse: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1593 (C and B on the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
AUCTIONES GMBH, AUCTION #72, LOT 223 20.06.2021
Silver Eight Shields minted in 1593 at the Donapaleu Mint – 3.72 gr 22 mm diameter – With the inverse value of the eighth
Found: HENRI.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Ifrentzwu: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM.1593 (C Izkia and B Izkia?) III – V
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
iNumis, Auction 43 Lot 422 09.10.2018
1594
This is probably the most interesting year. After several years of good general minting, there was a break in good minting during 1594. The obverse feature changed from a B to a L and the motto GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM. also had two more different variations this year. We do not have the number of coins minted for this year.
Silver quarter coin minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.57 gr 28.5mm Diameter
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzu: GRATIA.DEI.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and B letter above the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
INUMIS, MAIL BID SALE 36, LOT 320 07.03.2017
Silver quarter Ezkutu minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.538 gr
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and The letter L on the crown)
L Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
Gallery 51 June Auction Lot 215 12.06.2013
Silver quarter coin minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.57 gr 28.5mm Diameter
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. E. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and The letter L on the crown)
L Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
MONNAIES D'ANTAN, AUCTION 15, LOT 624 16.05.2014
Silver quarter coin minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.45 gr 29mm Diameter
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.Q.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and The letter L on the crown)
L Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
OLIVIER GOUJON NUMISMATIQUE, LIVE AUCTION 4, LOT 106 24.02.2023
Silver Eight Shields minted in 1594 at the Donapaleu Mint – 4.55 gr 24 mm diameter – With the value of one eighth
Found: HENRI.4.DGFRAN.E.NAVAR.REX
Ifrentzwu: GRATIA.D.SVM.Q.SVM.1594 (C Izkia and B letter above the crown)
B Izkia – Bertrand de la Lande Mintmaster
montay-numismatique
1595
According to Adrian Blanchet, 216 mint marks, or 5,443 quarter-shield coins, were minted this year. The coins of this year do not have the mint mark. We have no knowledge of the minted eighth-shield coins and the number of quarter-shield coins minted is very small. On December 27, Captain Jean Dufaur of Oloron obtained the position of mintmaster of Donapaleu for an annual salary of 2,150 livres.
Silver quarter Ezkutu minted in 1595 at the Donapaleu mint – 9.32 gr
Found: HENRICVS. 4. DG FRAN. ET. NAVAR. REX
Ifrentzua: FREE.CALL.SVM.ID.Q.SVM.1595 (C On both sides of the crown, No B or L letters)
Bertrand de la Lande without the Mintmaster's permission
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHAN KNOPIK Collection from Monaco
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