Abstract
We study the marking of silver in Castile and compare it with that adopted by the civil authorities of Paris and Bruges, the latter city with which Burgos was related both commercially and artistically. We specify the municipal charges that watched over the production with precious metals and we point out the different functions they had, weighters, contrasts and markers. We study the triple system of marking silver that was adopted in Burgos and Valladolid, which were reference cities for the rest of the Castilian territory. However, the cities of the Crown of Aragon, which worked silver of eleven dineros, adopted a system of surveillance marking by the city authorities, but with hardly any participation of the silversmiths.
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