📗 Libro en catalán PLOMS I VALS ECLESIÀSTICS DE MALLORCA. EL REREFONS HISTORIC, ECON OMIC I SOCIAL DELS BENEFICIS ECLESIÀSTICS (1522- S. XX) = ECCLESIASTICAL LEAD AND PAPER TOKENS FROM MAJORCA. THE HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC A

With such a long title as Ecclesiastical Lead and Paper Tokens from Majorca. The Historical, Economic and Social Background of the Ecclesiastical Benefices (1522-20th Century), the author describes these paramonetary items and also explains the complex economic system of which they were an essential part. By using a wide range of arguments and testimonies, mostly obtained from contemporary documents, each token is described in its geographical, chronological, and iconographic context, to the extent that the documentation allows. The theoretical framework of the ecclesiastical paracoinage from the Late Middle Ages until almost shortly before the present has been developed. In short, this is an attempt to create a reference work that could be of use both to the lovers of this branch of Numismatics and the scholars of the Catholic ecclesiastic economy of the past.