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Denier - Garcia IV
| Issuer | Kingdom of Navarre |
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| Year | 1134-1150 |
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| Reference(s) | PA#3326 féodales#1342 |
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| Obverse lettering | GARCIA REX (Translation: Garcia IV, King) |
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| Reverse lettering | NAVARA (Translation: Navarra) |
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Garcia IV Ramírez, called "the Restorer," founded the restored Kingdom of Navarre in 1134 after the death of Alfonso I of Aragon left a succession vacuum — Navarre had been absorbed into Aragon for decades, and this coinage marks the first independent Navarrese mint output in a generation. The kingdom he reassembled was geographically hemmed between Castile, Aragon, and the Pyrenean passes, which gave these deniers an outsized political significance relative to their modest weight.
Struck across a sixteen-year reign, die consistency across surviving examples is notably poor, a feature common to newly reestablished mints rebuilding institutional knowledge from scratch.