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2 Kreuzers - Johann VI
| Issuer | Bishopric of Chur |
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| Year | 1646 |
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| Value | 2 Kreuzers (1⁄45) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb surmounted by a patriarchal cross, set within a beaded inner circle; the numeral 2, denoting the coin's value of 2 Kreuzers, appears in the lower portion of the orb. The surrounding legend in the outer field references Emperor Ferdinand III and includes the date 1646, affirming the coin's issue under imperial authority. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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The Bishopric of Chur occupied a peculiar position in the mid-seventeenth century — nominally within the Holy Roman Empire yet perched in the Graubünden, a region whose confessional and political loyalties had fractured violently during the Thirty Years' War, which concluded just two years after this piece was struck. Johann VI von Flugi had navigated that instability carefully, and small billon issues like this one served the practical demands of a diocese whose economy ran on alpine trade routes connecting the Italian peninsula to the northern cantons.