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Tarja - Juan III and Catalina
| Issuer | Navarre, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1483-1512 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ IOHANES : ET : KATARINA : REGES (Translation: John and Catherine Kings) |
| Reverse description | A bold Latin cross with flared, concave arms occupies the central field, dividing it into four quarters; three quarters each contain a small crowned letter or decorative motif, while one quarter bears a four-pointed star or lozenge ornament. The cross is enclosed within a plain inner circle, beyond which a Latin devotional legend runs around the full circumference within a beaded border. The workmanship is typical of late 15th-century Navarrese hammered billon production. |
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Juan III and Catalina ruled Navarre jointly as a consequence of the succession crisis following the death of Catalina's mother, Queen Magdalena, in 1495 — the kingdom's complex inheritance laws requiring a male co-ruler effectively forced the marriage alliance that produced this joint coinage. The tarja denomination itself was a billon small change struck across multiple Pyrenean and Franco-Iberian mints during this period, valued at four cornados in Navarrese reckoning.
Ferdinand of Aragon's annexation of Navarre in 1512 ended the reign abruptly, making the later dates of this issue products of a kingdom already under severe military and political pressure from the south.