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2 Euros Pau Claris Casademunt
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded with lettering |
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This coin commemorates Pau Claris, the 17th-century Catalan lawyer and canon of Urgell who briefly proclaimed Catalonia a republic under French protection in January 1641 — a move that handed sovereignty to Louis XIII for less than twelve years before the region reverted to the Spanish Crown following the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. Spain issuing a coin honoring a man who formally renounced its authority is an irony sharpened considerably by the timing: the coin appeared in 2016, when tensions over Catalan independence had reached a pitch not seen since the Franco era.