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Message:: [QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 3842261, member: 96174"]"Technically I wasn't in Spain, I was in Catalunya" -  that's like saying "Technically I wasn't in the USA, I was in Texas". But Cataluña has never been an independent state, it was part of the Crown of Aragon that united with the Kingdom of Castile & Leon in the 15th Century to form the Kingdom of Spain - and in 1978, afer the death of Franco, over 90% of Cataluña voted in favor of the new democratic constitution. I have had kids here saying to me, "I didn't vote for the constitution so I am not bound by it!" - to which I reply, "I'll accept that when you show me an American citizen who voted for their constitution". Coming back to coins, if you want to see the best collection of Aragonese coins produced in Cataluña when it was a principality of Aragon and Spanish coins minted in Barcelona under the Spanish crown, one the best museums happens to be in France, in Perpignan, the capital of the old county of  Rousillon, which was Aragonese and then Spanish until it was lost to the French under the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. Obviously, it specialises in medieval hammered coins produced in Perpignan, but it does include all other coins found in the area - Roman, Gallic, Greek etc. Musée Numismatique Joseph Puig, Avenue de Grande-Bretagne 42, 66000 PERPIGNAN[/QUOTE]