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60 Kreuzer - Georg Philip
| Issuer | Haldenstein, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1690-1692 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1628-1783) |
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| Obverse lettering | :ABEHRN·F·DO·IN·H + GEORG·PHIL·L·BA |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Haldenstein was among the smallest sovereign entities in the Graubünden region of the Swiss Confederation, a lordship of almost comical territorial modesty that nonetheless exercised the right to strike coinage. Georg Philipp von Schauenstein-Ehrenfels held the lordship during this period and leveraged that minting privilege aggressively, producing a range of silver denominations including this 60 Kreuzer that circulated alongside the output of far larger authorities.
The HMZ reference places this firmly within the documented Graubünden issues, a collecting area where attribution can be treacherous given how many small lordships struck visually similar types in the same decades.