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8 Reales - Philip IV
| Issuer | City under siege of Aire-sur-la-Lys (French States) |
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| Year | 1641 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1641 |
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Aire-sur-la-Lys, a fortified town in Artois, was besieged by French forces under Louis XIII in the summer of 1641 as part of the prolonged Franco-Spanish conflict over the Spanish Netherlands. The town's garrison, holding in the name of Philip IV, required emergency coinage to pay troops when regular supply lines failed — a practice documented across multiple Spanish-held towns during this phase of the Thirty Years' War. These siege issues were struck under duress, often from melted plate or ecclesiastical silver, with minimal equipment.
KM#27 is among the rarer documented siege coinages of the Spanish Netherlands. Aire capitulated to French forces in July 1641.