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Navarrese Coins and Accounts of King Francis Phoebus

Leave a Comment / Francis Phoebus I (1479-1483), Kingdom of Navarre /

King Francis Phoebus is not a well-known king in modern Navarre, having died at the age of just fourteen, after inheriting the throne from his grandmother Eleanor of Trastamara. A member of the Foix family, sovereign lord of Bearn through the succession of his grandfather and father, he held the crown for four years, between 1479 and January 1483, before abdicating to his sister Catherine. Some believe that he died of tuberculosis, […]

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Peruvian Silver Scam in Navarre

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At the end of the 1640s, a great scandal spread throughout the Spanish kingdoms and, to a large extent, throughout all European territories. The coins of 8 and 4 reales brought annually from the territories of Peru by the ships of the Indies did not comply with the required silver weight and laws. The reales had a legal value of about 931 thousandths of silver at that time (11 dinars and 4 grains) and, according to the legislation, the real

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