Barcelona's municipal copper issues of 1641–43 fall squarely within the Corpus de Sang uprising and the subsequent declaration of Catalan allegiance to Louis XIII of France as Count of Barcelona — a political rupture with Philip IV that made locally authorized coinage both a practical necessity and an assertion of autonomous authority. The "uncertain" attribution reflects genuine ambiguity in the documentary record: it remains unresolved whether specific dies within this series were authorized directly by the municipality or under French-backed administrative oversight during the occupation.
Barcelona's municipal copper issues of 1641–43 fall squarely within the Corpus de Sang uprising and the subsequent declaration of Catalan allegiance to Louis XIII of France as Count of Barcelona — a political rupture with Philip IV that made locally authorized coinage both a practical necessity and an assertion of autonomous authority. The "uncertain" attribution reflects genuine ambiguity in the documentary record: it remains unresolved whether specific dies within this series were authorized directly by the municipality or under French-backed administrative oversight during the occupation.