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5 Reales - Principality of Catalonia Without coat of arms of Vic
| Issuer | Municipality of Vic (Province of Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1641 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse lettering | · · V R · · · + · PRINCIPAT CATALONA · |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Vic's 1641 issue belongs to the chaotic monetary output of the Catalan Revolt — the Guerra dels Segadors — when Catalonia formally renounced Philip IV and placed itself under French protection. Municipal and ecclesiastical authorities across the principality struck their own coinage to fund resistance, filling the vacuum left by Castilian monetary authority. The variety lacking the coat of arms of Vic is the scarcer of the two principal types catalogued under this emission, the omission likely reflecting the haste and improvisation of wartime production rather than deliberate policy.