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1/2 Dicken - Johannes Jordan
| Issuer | Bishopric of Sion |
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| Year | 1548 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Half-length figure of Saint Theodore (Theodulus), patron saint of Valais, facing left, mitred and vested in episcopal robes, holding an upright sword in his right hand and a crozier in his left. A halo surrounds his head. The figure is rendered in relief within a plain inner circle, enclosed by a beaded border and a continuous Latin legend identifying the saint and his honorific title. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✿ · S ⬩ THEODOL9 ⬩ PATER ⬩ PATRIÆ · |
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Johannes Jordan served as Bishop of Sion from 1548 to 1550, a tenure so brief that coinage bearing his name was produced in a narrow window before his death. The Bishopric of Sion — the temporal and ecclesiastical authority governing the Valais — had long exercised the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege that made each bishop's issue effectively a personal monetary statement tied to his exact years in office.
The HMZ 2#1038a attribution places this among the rarer episcopal halves of the series.