Denier - Philip III Vic

Vic's municipal coinage authority was among the few in Catalonia permitted to strike copper deniers under the terms negotiated with the Crown of Aragon and later confirmed under Habsburg rule. The 1611 issue falls within a period of chronic small-change shortages across the Iberian Peninsula, when municipal and seigneurial mints filled gaps the royal apparatus could not — or would not — address. Cal#916 and Cal#917 represent distinct die varieties of this type, a distinction Calicó documented without resolving the question of whether both varieties were struck in the same emission or represent separate authorizations.