Gizarte eta Ekonomia Kontextugunea, Euskal Txanpongintzaren Historia

The Printings of Our Women in Coinage

1 Comment / Social and Economic Context / Monakotik

Women are of great importance in our lives, our mothers, our loved ones, our family and friends, the school girls who showed us the world in Basque... all of them have had the same importance in Basque history, but as has happened everywhere, this importance has not been adequately reflected in the documents that have been preserved, nor in the narrative of history that we tell. Old coins are official documents that have survived to our days. The metal […]

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When Spanish Language Appeared on Basque coins

As we saw in the previous entry (link), the French Revolution brought about a complete change in the patterns of coins in the North. But what was happening in the South at the same time? Well, at the time of the revolution in France, the kingdom of Spain was still rooted in the old regime. Through the use of Latin, the coinage indicated that the king's power had a divine origin. Several kings passed, but

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When French Language appeared on Basque coins

1 Comment / Bayonne Mint, Social and Economic Context, Historical Context / Monakotik

As we saw in the previous entry (link), the French Revolution brought about a complete change in European political thought. This change took place throughout the 19th century in different European territories, where the creation and expansion of the nation-state occurred as the century passed. At the same time that the old regime was fading away, new nation-states began to build the foundations of their symbols, myths and structures.

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