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5 Sous Manresa
| Issuer | Catalonia, Principality of |
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| Year | 1641 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CIVITAS MINORISÆ 1641 (Translation: City of Manresa) |
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Manresa's 1641 emission belongs to the Corpus de Sang uprising — the revolt of Catalan peasants and clergy against Castilian billeting demands that ignited on Corpus Christi day, June 7, 1640. Within months Catalonia had declared itself a republic under French protection, and municipal mints across the principality scrambled to produce emergency coinage independent of Madrid. Manresa was among the smaller local authorities to strike silver, and its output was limited to the immediate crisis period.
The French protectorate under Louis XIII collapsed militarily by 1652, when Barcelona fell to Philip IV after a prolonged siege.