15 Kreuzers - Ulrich VI

The Bishopric of Chur held a precarious position in the late seventeenth century — nominally under the Holy Roman Empire but geographically embedded in the Swiss Confederation's sphere, leaving its bishops to navigate competing monetary pressures from both directions. Ulrich VI von Mont issued these 15 Kreuzer pieces during a period when small-denomination silver coinages across the Alpine bishoprics were proliferating to meet local trade demands that larger imperial issues couldn't practically serve. The HMZ reference places this squarely within the documented Graubünden ecclesiastical series, a region notorious among collectors for attribution difficulties given overlapping cantonal and episcopal striking rights.