Denier - Garcia IV

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.