Barcelona struck copper deniers in the name of Louis XIII of France following Catalonia's 1640 revolt against Philip IV of Spain — the so-called Corpus de Sang — which drove the Generalitat to place the principality under French protection. Louis XIII died in May 1643, making this issue a brief transitional curiosity: coins bearing his portrait were still being produced in Barcelona under his successor's authority before the dies were updated to Louis XIV.
Barcelona struck copper deniers in the name of Louis XIII of France following Catalonia's 1640 revolt against Philip IV of Spain — the so-called Corpus de Sang — which drove the Generalitat to place the principality under French protection. Louis XIII died in May 1643, making this issue a brief transitional curiosity: coins bearing his portrait were still being produced in Barcelona under his successor's authority before the dies were updated to Louis XIV.