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Cornado - Juan II
| Issuer | Navarre, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1441-1479 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄72) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a crowned bust of Juan II facing left, rendered in the crude Gothic style typical of Navarrese medieval hammered coinage. The bust is enclosed within a plain inner circle, itself surrounded by a beaded border. The circumferential legend in Latin reads + IOHANES DI GRA REX, identifying the ruler as John by the grace of God, King. The die workmanship is characteristically rough, with irregular flan edges resulting from hand-hammering. |
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| Obverse lettering | + IOHANES DI GRA REX |
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Juan II of Navarre spent much of his reign in open conflict with his own son, Carlos de Viana, whose claim to the Navarrese throne by right of his mother Blanca I was broadly supported by the local nobility. The prolonged civil war that followed consumed the kingdom's finances and almost certainly disrupted mint output at Pamplona. Billon issues from this period reflect a debased monetary system under sustained fiscal pressure.
Cru#278 is among the smaller Navarrese cornado types, and attribution to Juan II rather than an earlier or later reign depends heavily on die detail and letter forms.