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1 Principat - Ferdinand II
| Issuer | Roussillon, County of |
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| Year | 1493-1516 |
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| Value | 1 Principat (192) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned bust of Ferdinand II facing right, wearing a jewelled crown and draped collar, rendered in a late Gothic style typical of Aragonese coinage. The royal effigy is depicted with fine hair detail beneath the crown. A beaded inner circle frames the bust, with the legend distributed around the periphery within an outer beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand II of Aragon acquired Roussillon and Cerdagne from France in 1493 under the Treaty of Barcelona, a diplomatic masterstroke in which he traded his military support against the Italian campaigns of Charles VIII in exchange for the return of these Catalan-speaking counties pledged to France by his father John II in 1462. The principat coinage struck for Roussillon falls squarely within that recovered sovereignty, issued from the Perpignan mint.
Fr#230 is among the scarcer gold issues of the Crown of Aragon's French territories, with Perpignan's output dwarfed by the major Aragonese and Castilian mints throughout Ferdinand's reign.