6 Kreuzers - George Philip

Haldenstein was a tiny sovereign lordship in the Graubünden region of present-day Switzerland, ruled in 1687 by Georg Philipp von Schauenstein-Ehrenfels, whose family had held the territory since the mid-sixteenth century. The lordship's right to strike coin was perpetually contested — Graubünden's complex jurisdictional patchwork meant that local lords, the Three Leagues, and the bishop of Chur all claimed overlapping monetary authority at various points. That Haldenstein produced issues at all is partly a function of how aggressively the Schauenstein-Ehrenfels family defended its prerogatives against encroachment from neighbors with far greater resources.