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4 Cornados - Felipe III
| Issuer | Navarre, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1611 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the interlaced royal monogram of Felipe III, formed by the conjoined letters F and I in large gothic script, surmounted by an open royal crown. The monogram is rendered in bold relief against a plain field and is enclosed within a beaded inner border. A partial Latin legend runs along the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Navarre retained its own coinage system well after Ferdinand of Aragon absorbed the kingdom in 1512, a concession to the foral privileges that Castilian monarchs were politically obliged to respect. Felipe III, who showed minimal personal interest in governance and delegated most decisions to the Duke of Lerma, nonetheless maintained this parallel minting tradition largely out of institutional inertia rather than deliberate policy.
The cornado was by this date an archaic denomination — already obsolete in most of Castile — surviving in Navarre purely through local custom.