Crisis, monetary regulations and Exchange Tables in the kingdom of Navarra (1329-1360)

Abstract

The crisis of succession resulting from the death of the last direct Capeto (1st of February 1328) led, among things, to the arrival of a new dynasty, the Evreux, and subsequent separation from the French crown, to which the monarchy had been united for almost half a century. For a great part of this time, the Navarrese coin (sanchetes) was equivalent to France’s small tournois. The new monarchs, as was preceptive, had the power to issue new coins or to keep the old ones for a minimum period of twelve months and, preferably, throughout their reign. The drop in the amount of coins in circulation and growing demand for coins as a basic instrument for commercial transactions...