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3 Kreuzers City
| Issuer | Chur, City of |
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| Year | 1732-1737 |
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| Value | 3 Kreuzer (1⁄30) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | CAROL . VI . D . G . ROM . IM . S . A . |
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Chur — the oldest city in Switzerland, seat of the Bishops of Chur since late antiquity — exercised municipal minting rights that ran in uneasy parallel with episcopal coinage from the same town. The city's 3 Kreuzer issues of this period reflect a modest but deliberate assertion of civic authority at a moment when the Graubünden communes were navigating delicate relationships with both the Habsburg periphery and the Swiss Confederacy. Production almost certainly ran through a contracted die-cutter rather than a standing municipal mint operation.