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8 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 description | Central field bears a large crowned royal FI monogram — the interlaced letters F and I representing Felipe (Philippus) IV — surmounted by an ornate crown bearing a fleur-de-lis finial. The denomination numeral 8 appears below the monogram. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the peripheral Latin legend running along the outer margin of the coin. |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the crowned arms of Navarre — the traditional shield bearing the chained escutcheon of Navarre — enclosed within a beaded inner circle and surmounted by an ornate royal crown. Flanking the shield within the field are the letters P and P, denoting the mint or assayer marks. The peripheral Latin legend encircles the entire design along the outer margin of the coin. |
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Navarre retained its own coinage system well into the Habsburg period, a privilege preserved under the terms of the 1512 incorporation into Castile. The cornado — a denomination with roots in the medieval kingdom — continued to be struck at the Pamplona mint long after equivalent petty copper had vanished elsewhere in the peninsula. Felipe IV's reign saw considerable pressure to harmonize Navarrese monetary practice with Castilian reform edicts, but the kingdom's fueros provided enough legal insulation to keep local types in production across four decades.
The unusually low weight for an 8-cornado piece reflects chronic underfunding at Pamplona rather than any deliberate policy shift.