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1/2 Batzen - Hildebrand Jost
| Issuer | Bishopric of Sion |
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| Year | 1623-1627 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1475-1780) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1623 - - 1624 - - 1625 - - 1627 - - |
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Hildebrand Jost's episcopate was defined almost entirely by conflict with the Seven Dizains, the semi-autonomous districts of Valais whose governing council repeatedly clashed with episcopal authority over temporal jurisdiction. His coinage years — 1623 to 1627 — fall squarely within this struggle, which eventually forced Jost to seek intervention from Rome and spend years in exile. That a bishop producing such modest billon fractions was simultaneously fighting for the very survival of his secular power lends these small coins an outsized biographical weight.