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Dinero
| Issuer | Pallars Sobira, County of |
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| Year | 1451-1491 |
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| Weight | 4 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a plain Latin cross, the arms of which divide the crowned initials H and R — referencing Count Hugh Roger (Hugo Roger) of Pallars Sobira — into the four quarters. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, separated from it by a beaded or linear inner border. The strike is characteristic of late medieval Catalan hammered coinage, with an irregular flan and slightly uneven relief. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pallars Sobirà was one of the last semi-autonomous Pyrenean counties to maintain its own coinage, a privilege that survived well into the second half of the fifteenth century largely because the county's remoteness made enforcement of broader Aragonese monetary policy impractical. The counts Hugh Roger II and Hugh Roger III — father and son, spanning precisely this 1451–1491 window — both struck dineros under the same type, which is why attribution to a specific reign requires die study rather than type alone.
Cru#136 is among the scarcer of the Catalan feudal series. The county was absorbed into the Crown of Aragon's direct administration shortly after 1491, ending local minting permanently.