2 Kreutzers - Paul Ziegler

Paul Ziegler served as Bishop of Chur from 1503 until his death in 1541, presiding over a diocese that occupied one of the most strategically contested Alpine corridors in early sixteenth-century Europe. The Bishopric's coinage authority was perpetually under pressure during this period — the Graubünden leagues were consolidating political power at the expense of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and Ziegler spent much of his tenure negotiating the boundaries between episcopal and communal sovereignty. That this type was struck at all across a 38-year episcopate reflects the tenacity of the see's minting rights rather than any administrative stability.