*4.1. Coinage*

The first area in which these consequences became evident is in his coinage. He sought to integrate his territories economically and one way of doing this was by minting *diners* and *òbols* that followed the traditional model with some changes to his clothing. Specifically he decreed "that [his coins] should again be minted in a similar shape, size and law to the silver coin of Barcelona. And that there should be no diversity except in the lettering" [19] (Figure 2).

**Figure 2.** *Ral* and *Ral d'or* of Peter IV. Mallorca. Published by Crusafont, *Numimsmàtica de la Corona Catalano-Aragonesa medieval (785–1516)*; Vico: Madrid, Spain, 1982; num. 252 and *Guia art gòtic*, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya: Barcelona, Spain, 1998, p. 54, fig. 1.1.

He then changed his mind and struck, for the first time in the history of the coinage of the kings of Aragon, pieces with a frontal bust/cross and enthroned king/double-barred cross surrounded by + PETRUS DEI GRACIA REX/ + ARAGONUM ET MAIORICARUM, a brief inscription due to the limited size of the pieces and which omitted his sovereignty over the counties of Roussillon, Cerdanya and Montpellier, sold by the Mallorcan king to the king of France to finance the war [20]. Peter IV took special care to mark the invalidity of the sale: COMESQUE BARCHINONE ROSSILIONIS ET CERITANIE would appear on all his seals. These new pieces, precious and full of detail, offered another unprecedented element in the coinage of the kings, namely, mint marks, which were prolific in Mallorcan issues and which from now on would be standard on Aragonese pieces [21].
