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4 Cornados - Felipe IV
| Issuer | Navarre, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1621-1665 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | + PHILIPVS · D · G · R · NAV F4I |
| Reverse description | A triangular shield bearing the arms of the Kingdom of Navarre — the golden chains on a red field — occupies the central field, here rendered in a simplified manner consistent with hammered copper coinage. The shield is set within a circular Latin legend running along the coin's periphery. Mint marks flank the shield on either side. The overall execution is typical of the crude but recognizable style of 17th-century Navarrese billon and copper issues. |
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Navarre retained its own coinage system well into the Habsburg period — a concession to the kingdom's distinct legal status under the fueros, the body of traditional privileges that successive Castilian monarchs were obliged to swear to uphold upon accession. Felipe IV's long reign, spanning four decades of near-continuous warfare and fiscal crisis, left the broader Castilian monetary system in ruins, yet Navarrese copper issues continued under their own authority throughout. The cornado denomination itself was archaic even by 1621 standards, a holdover from medieval Navarrese monetary tradition that had long ceased circulating in Castile proper.