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Ouro

  1. Gold.
  2. Ouro amoedado: coined gold. [Pedro, ch. 40: 52]
  3. Ouro em pasta: alluvial gold. [Fernando, ch. 37: 20]

Tari

  1. Tari; type of bit used in bridles for jennets, a lighter horse popular in the Middle Ages.
  2. Bibl:  Meleiro, Mário José Silva, '"Novidade de Pallavras" no Português do Século XV', Ph.D. thesis in Historical Linguistics (Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, 2011), ch. 3, p. 110.

Grave (Portuguese coin)

 
  1. Grave; billon coin that King Fernando of Portugal had struck in the Galician towns that took voice for him, refusing to follow Enrique II who they say as King Pedro of Castile's murderer and usurper (1369).
  2. The name of the coin delives from the lance depicted on one side. This is the type of lance carried by the French mercenaries of Enrique II of Castile. King Fernando wanted the coins to register his wars with Castile.
  3. 1 grave = 21 Portuguese copper reais (King Fernando, 1369).

Maravedí (Castilian monetary unit)

  1. Maravedí.
  2. The Castilian maravedi by the time of Pedro I of Castile (mid-14th century) had ceased to be minted and became an accounting monetary unit, i.e. a reference value for other coins and a reference value that was very familiar at the time.
  3. 1 silver maravedí (Alfonso X, 1281) = 1 French gros tornés (Louis IX, 1266)
  4. 1 maravedí (Enrique II, 1373) = 6 cornados = 10 dineros = 12 cinquenes = 60 meajas.

Cornado

  1. Cornado.
  2. Coin minted by Enrique II of Castile in which the silver content was lower than the value attributed to the coin. This is past of a monetary reorganization introduced by Enrique II to pay his debts during his military campaigns to secure the crown of Castile. These measures were effective, but caused very high inflation.
  3. 1 cornado = 1/6 maravedí.
  4. 250 cornados = 1 marco.

Cruzado (Castillian coin)

  1. Cruzado.
  2. Coin minted by Enrique II of Castile.
  3. 1 cruzado = 1 maravedí = 10 dineros novenes
  4. 120 cruzados = 1 marco
  5. Bibl: De Francisco Olmos, José María, 'La moneda de la Castilla bajo medieval. Medio de propaganda e instrumento económico', in II Jornadas Científicas sobre Documentación de la Corona de Castilla (siglos XIII-XV), Madrid, 2003, pp. 298-302.

Sessenes

  1. Sesén.
  2. Enrique II had this new coin struck in Burgos and Talavera in order to pay his troops at the beginning of his reign. It was called sesén, or sesenes in the plural, because it was worth six dineros
  3. 1 sesén = 6 dineros.

Real (Castilian coin)

  1. First strong silver currency in Castile. Introduced by Pedro I of Castile in 1351, and remaining stable till the end of the reign on Juan II.
  2. In the days of Pedro I of Castile it became the basis of his monetary system with coins of 1, 2, 4 and 8 reales, and fractions of the real, such as 1/4 and 1/2 real.
  3. 1 real = 1/12  dobla = 3 maravedíes = 11 dineros = 70 marcos.
  4. 1 real de vellón = 1 maravedí.

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