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Navarrese Coins and Accounts of King Francis Phoebus

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King Francis Phoebus is not a well-known king in modern Navarre, having died at the age of just fourteen, after inheriting the throne from his grandmother Eleanor of Trastamara. A member of the Foix family, sovereign lord of Bearn through the succession of his grandfather and father, he held the crown for four years, between 1479 and January 1483, before abdicating to his sister Catherine. Some believe that he died of tuberculosis, […]

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A look at the Bayonne Mint – Part 1, Hammer by hammer

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The most prolific and prosperous mint in the current Basque territories was the mint of Bayonne. During the 16th and 17th centuries, while the importance and richness of the coinage of the Kingdom of Navarre declined (both in Upper Navarre and Lower Navarre), Bayonne became one of the most important mints in France. However, since the coins of Bayonne were minted under the authority and in the name of the French kings, the Navarrese mint

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