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Bluzger - Georg Philip
| Issuer | Haldenstein, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1684-1687 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1628-1783) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a shield bearing the arms of Haldenstein, displaying a striped (barry) coat of arms surmounted by a helmet with crest, all within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads GEORG·PHLIP·EB·AB·EHRF·D·I·H, referencing Georg Philip, lord of Haldenstein, separated by pellet stops. The hammered flan displays typical irregular edges characteristic of late 17th-century billon coinage from the Graubünden region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haldenstein was among the smallest sovereign entities in the Graubünden region of the Swiss Confederation, a lordship so diminutive that its coinage was functionally redundant against the larger cantonal issues circulating alongside it. Georg Philip issued these billon bluzger — a denomination essentially synonymous with petty change — during a four-year window that coincides with his consolidation of local fiscal authority. The HMZ reference places this squarely within a recognizable Alpine billon tradition, but Haldenstein's independent minting rights remained perpetually contested by neighboring powers throughout the late seventeenth century.