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Señal Cervera
| Issuer | Catalonia, Principality of |
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| Year | 1479-1516 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank reverse, as struck, with no design, legend, or device of any kind. The plain flan surface shows typical irregularities and flow lines consistent with hammered copper coinage of the period. |
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| Mint | Cervera |
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The senyals of Cervera were emergency municipal issues authorized during a period when the Catalan coinage system was severely disrupted — first by the civil war against Joan II (1462–1472), then by the prolonged economic dislocation that followed. Cervera, a significant royal town in the interior of Catalonia, issued these copper pieces to fill a practical gap in small-denomination circulation that the official mint at Barcelona could not reliably supply.
The date range spanning Ferdinand II's reign places this squarely within the early years of the Crown of Aragon's union with Castile — a political realignment that did little to immediately stabilize local Catalan monetary conditions.