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5 Reales - Philip IV
| Issuer | Municipality of Igualada (Province of Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1641 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned quartered shield bearing the four pales of Aragon, flanked on either side by the denomination mark V and R. The shield is set within an inner beaded circle, with the royal legend PHILIPP9 D · G · R · HISPANIARVM (Philip, by the Grace of God, King of the Spains) disposed around the periphery between two concentric beaded borders. The entire composition reflects the characteristic bold, irregular style of Catalan siege and emergency coinage of the mid-seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Igualada's 1641 emission belongs to the Catalan Revolt — the Guerra dels Segadors — when Catalonia repudiated Philip IV and placed itself under French protection, briefly recognizing Louis XIII as Count of Barcelona. Municipal and ecclesiastical authorities across the region struck their own coinage as the normal Castilian supply collapsed under wartime disruption. Igualada was a modest wool-trading town with no established mint, which explains both the irregular weight behavior documented across surviving specimens and the relatively crude execution compared to Barcelona's own emergency issues.
The revolt itself lasted until 1652, when Barcelona fell after a prolonged siege.