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1/2 Dicken
| Issuer | League of God's House |
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| Year | 1501-1600 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, its two heads nimbate with haloes, wings spread, the body finely stippled with feather detail in the hammered tradition. The eagle is presented without a shield on its breast, occupying the majority of the reverse field within a beaded inner circle. The encircling Latin legend · DOMINE · CONSER : – : VA · NOS · IN · PACE · (Lord, preserve us in peace) is interrupted at two points by the design, with the value mark IZ (denoting 12 Kreuzer) appearing in the lower exergual area. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The League of God's House (Gotteshausbund) was one of three constituent leagues that eventually merged to form the Graubünden canton, a process formalized in 1524. This half dicken was struck under that league's own monetary authority — a prerogative jealously maintained by the smaller Swiss confederate bodies well into the sixteenth century, even as larger minting operations consolidated elsewhere. The Chur mint, which served the league, operated under the influence of the local bishop, creating persistent jurisdictional friction between ecclesiastical and civic coinage rights throughout the period.