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Denier - Louis XIII
| Issuer | Municipality of Vic (Province of Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1642 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (Diner) (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | Plain hammered field bearing the municipal legend of Vic in Latin, reading ✸ CIVITAS · VICEN · 1642, identifying the issuing city as Civitas Vicensis (City of Vic) and recording the year of emission. The inscription is distributed around the central field in a circular arrangement, with the date 1642 integrated into the legend. The flan is irregular and the strike weak, consistent with the emergency nature of this issue produced during the Reapers' War. No central device or heraldic emblem is present, the legend alone serving as the principal design element. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✸ CIVITAS · VICEN · 1642 |
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Vic's 1642 copper denier was struck under emergency municipal authority during the Catalan Revolt — the Guerra dels Segadors — when Catalonia had renounced allegiance to Philip IV and placed itself under French protection. Local mints across the principality scrambled to produce small-denomination coinage as the institutional machinery of the Spanish Crown collapsed in the region. The coin technically names Louis XIII as issuer, reflecting that brief, awkward period when the Generalitat had proclaimed him Count of Barcelona.