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Cornado - Juan II
| Issuer | Kingdom of Navarre |
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| Year | 1441-1479 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse lettering | IOHANES DEI GRACIA REX (Translation: John II King by the grace of God) |
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| Mintage | ND (1441-1479) |
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Juan II of Navarre held the kingdom largely through his wife Blanca I, whose death in 1441 triggered a dynastic civil war between Juan and his own son Carlos de Viana that consumed Navarre for decades. This small billon cornado circulated through that conflict — a war in which the French crown, Castile, and Aragon all intervened at various points, reducing Navarre to a pawn rather than a sovereign player.
The billon content of these issues degraded noticeably across the emission period as fiscal pressure mounted.