8 escudos 1813 and 1814, Catalonia
In Catalonia, the legitimate government was represented by the Junta Superior del Principado, which issued provincial coinage but also general coinage, as seen in its doubloons. The main particularity of the so-called Catalonia mint, whose director was Joan Amat, is that it was an itinerant establishment known to have operated in Reus (1809), Tarragona (1811) and later Mallorca (1813). Its assayers were Pablo Sala and Juan Bautista Ferrando (SF).
During this complicated period, the only doubloons struck by this mint were the Mallorcan issues of 1813, produced in very small numbers and therefore especially scarce. Other doubloons dated 1814 and bearing the Catalonia mint name also exist, but these were in fact struck in Barcelona in 1822 by representatives of the liberal government while awaiting the new dies approved in Madrid. For this purpose they used the dies made in Mallorca for that date, which had not been used at the time, and only a very small number of pieces were struck. The bust of the king is unique to this itinerant mint.