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Seiseno - Philip IV
| Issuer | Municipality of Olot (Province of Girona) |
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| Year | 1642 |
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| Value | Seiseno (Sisè) |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered field bearing a bust of Philip IV facing right, struck in low relief with characteristic imprecision typical of wartime emergency coinage. The portrait shows the king in draped attire, the facial features broadly rendered due to the rudimentary die-cutting and irregular flan. A partial Latin legend reads PHILIPVS, preceded by a cross pattée, disposed around the periphery of the coin. The flan is notably irregular in outline, with areas of weak strike and surface porosity consistent with locally produced copper emergency issues of the Catalan Revolt period. |
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| Mintage | 1642 |
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Olot's 1642 copper issues belong to the emergency municipal coinage that proliferated across Catalonia during the Corpus de Sang revolt and the subsequent Franco-Catalan war against Castile. With royal Castilian supply chains severed and Catalan institutions scrambling to pay troops and maintain local commerce, dozens of municipalities struck their own copper under improvised authority. Olot was a modest wool-trading town in the Garrotxa, not a major mint center, which makes its municipal issues considerably scarcer than those of Barcelona or Vic.