Monedas y fiscalidad en el reinado de Blanca de Navarra: del monedaje a las “acuñaciones de guerra” (1428-1432)

Abstract

The government headed by Queen Blanca and her husband, Juan II, towards the end of 1425 started in the most auspicious of ways. One their first acts was to exercise the right, as expressed in the “Fuero”, to mint new coins: the recently- initiated kingdom’s own coins. This was an attempt at both seeking the much-desired stability and meeting the ever-requested increase to the monetary sum in circulation. The licences to mint coins granted at the beginning of the reign can be set within this context, in which the four coins minted, all multiples of the “dinero” (24, 12, 2 and 1), represented an attempt at lending greater fluidity and balance to the system. These policies were inspired by the...