Señal Gerona

The senyals of Catalonia's principal cities functioned as emergency fiduciary issues, filling the vacuum left by chronic shortages of small silver coinage in the late fifteenth century. Gerona's municipal authorities struck these pieces under sanction from the Crown of Aragon — a relationship that became increasingly fraught once Ferdinand II consolidated power following the union with Castile in 1479.

Cru. 1416 is among the more elusive of the Catalan civic copper issues; Gerona's output was modest compared to Barcelona's prolific municipal production.