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Cornado - Carlos de Viana pretender
| Issuer | Navarre, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1441-1461 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄72) |
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| Reverse description | A plain Latin cross divides the reverse field into four quadrants, a characteristic design of medieval Navarrese cornado coinage. The cross extends to a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding legend partially visible along the coin's irregular edge. The overall die work is rough and characteristic of hand-struck billon issues of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlos de Viana never ruled Navarre. His father Juan II of Aragón stripped him of the Navarrese succession in favor of his second wife's offspring, triggering a civil conflict that consumed the kingdom for two decades. Carlos struck coins in his own name as Prince of Viana — a title his father refused to honor — asserting a legitimacy that courts across Castile, France, and Catalonia debated while he remained effectively stateless. His imprisonment by Juan II in 1460 provoked a Catalan uprising that outlasted Carlos himself; he died in 1461 before the dispute was ever resolved.