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| Issuer | Lordship of Haldenstein |
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| Year | 1701-1722 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennig (1⁄180) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haldenstein was one of the smallest sovereign entities in the Three Leagues of the Graubünden, a loose Swiss confederacy in which even minor lordships retained coinage rights well into the eighteenth century. Johann Lucius — properly Johann Lucius von Salis — ruled this pocket lordship during a period when such fractional billon pieces served purely local exchange, rarely traveling far beyond the Rhine valley villages under his jurisdiction.
The HMZ reference places this among a thin series of denominations struck across the Salis family's tenure at Haldenstein, the lordship itself passing between family branches through inheritance rather than purchase or conquest.