Señal Sanahúja

The señal was a fiduciary token rather than a struck coin in the traditional sense — these brass pieces circulated under the authority of the Principality during a period when Catalonia retained its own monetary institutions distinct from the Crown of Aragon's broader fiscal apparatus. Ferdinand II, despite unifying the Iberian crowns through his marriage to Isabella, was constitutionally bound by Catalan privileges that prevented him from simply absorbing local currency arrangements. The Corts held that power.

Sanahúja, a small town in the Segarra comarca, issued its own señal under municipal sanction — a telling sign of how fragmented petty coinage authority remained in late medieval Catalonia.