Batzen - Franz Joseph Supersaxo

Franz Joseph Supersaxo governed the Bishopric of Sion through one of the more fractious periods in Valais ecclesiastical politics, his tenure marked by persistent tension between the bishop's temporal authority and the seven dizains — the semi-autonomous administrative districts that effectively ran the canton. The batzen was the workhorse denomination of everyday commerce in the region, and billon issues of this type circulated well into Swiss lowland markets despite their provincial origin. HMZ attribution places this firmly within a well-documented Sion sequence, though die alignment inconsistencies across the 1708–1722 run are noted by specialists.