Publication: Small is beautiful’: la Meaja. Moneda mínima en Castilla (siglos XIII-XV). De fragmento monetal a dinero imaginado
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Fuentes Ganzo, Eduardo
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En este trabajo se aborda la más pequeña fracción o divisor de moneda en los
territorios de la corona de Castilla durante el bajo medievo, la “Meaja”, emparentada
inicialmente con el óbolo. Este divisor era de suma importancia para dar exactitud a las
transacciones y facilitar las operaciones económicas menos cuantiosas. Esta humilde moneda,
acuñada (ocasionalmente) o físicamente tajada de los dineros (las más de las veces), permitió
los pequeños pagos (tales como limosnas, portazgos, sisas o derramas de cofradías). Se
contempla también la otra fracción divisora, el “cinquén” (que llegaría a ser múltiplo de dinero
en el periodo). La meaja evolucionó en su valor relativo, siendo cada vez menor, ante la
progresiva devaluación del dinero que fraccionaba, llegando al siglo XV sin apenas valor
liberatorio y en desuso, terminando con un uso restringido a los meros efectos de ajuste
contable, como “dinero imaginado”
This paper studies the smallest fraction of money, or currency divisor, the "Meaja", in the territories of the Castilian crown during the lower Middle Ages, which is initially related to the “obolo”. This coin was extremely important in order to give exactness to transactions and facilitate operations: physically coined (occasionally) or handmadecut of money (more often). The meaja allowed the smallest payments (such as alms, portazgos, sisas, or dues of fellowships). The other divisive fraction (which would become a multiple of dinero in the period), the cinquén, is also contemplated. The meaja evolved in its relative value, being smaller and smaller (within the progressive devaluation of the money that fractioned), arriving at the XV century without just liberating value and its disuse, ending just used for accounting as “imagined money”.
This paper studies the smallest fraction of money, or currency divisor, the "Meaja", in the territories of the Castilian crown during the lower Middle Ages, which is initially related to the “obolo”. This coin was extremely important in order to give exactness to transactions and facilitate operations: physically coined (occasionally) or handmadecut of money (more often). The meaja allowed the smallest payments (such as alms, portazgos, sisas, or dues of fellowships). The other divisive fraction (which would become a multiple of dinero in the period), the cinquén, is also contemplated. The meaja evolved in its relative value, being smaller and smaller (within the progressive devaluation of the money that fractioned), arriving at the XV century without just liberating value and its disuse, ending just used for accounting as “imagined money”.
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