2 Kreuzers - Johann VI

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.