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Bluzger - Johann Lucius
| Issuer | Haldenstein, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1714 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1628-1783) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a bold ornate cross pattée in cruciform arrangement, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The divided date 17·14 appears within the surrounding legend at the top, with the full circumferential Latin inscription MON·NOVA·*·HALDENS·DG·17*14 running around the periphery. The cross design is characteristic of small billon coinage issued by the Lordship of Haldenstein during the early eighteenth century. |
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Haldenstein was among the smallest sovereign territories in the old Swiss confederation, a lordship so minor that its independent coinage output was sporadic and often minted in small runs to assert jurisdictional rights rather than meet any genuine commercial demand. The bluzger — a low-denomination billon piece common across the Rhine valley region — was the denomination of choice for exactly this kind of political statement minting.
Johann Lucius von Salis-Zizers held the lordship in this period. KM#80 is among the last documented issues from Haldenstein before the territory's coinage authority effectively lapsed.