10 Kreuzers City

Chur's independent coinage rights derived from its status as the seat of a bishop with imperial immediacy, but by the early seventeenth century the city itself — distinct from the episcopal authority — was asserting its own minting prerogative with increasing confidence. These kreuzers were struck across a period bracketed by the worst phases of the Thirty Years' War, when trade disruption and military requisitioning made reliable small silver coinage a practical necessity in the Graubünden rather than a civic vanity.