Uri was the smallest of the original Swiss forest cantons, and its autonomous coinage rights — exercised sporadically through the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries — were as much a political statement as a practical necessity. The Dicken denomination itself had been a workhorse of Swiss trade silver since the late fifteenth century, though by 1608 it was already yielding ground to the larger Taler in regional commerce.
Production across this four-year window was almost certainly limited; Uri lacked the mint infrastructure of Zurich or Bern and contracted work accordingly.
Uri was the smallest of the original Swiss forest cantons, and its autonomous coinage rights — exercised sporadically through the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries — were as much a political statement as a practical necessity. The Dicken denomination itself had been a workhorse of Swiss trade silver since the late fifteenth century, though by 1608 it was already yielding ground to the larger Taler in regional commerce.
Production across this four-year window was almost certainly limited; Uri lacked the mint infrastructure of Zurich or Bern and contracted work accordingly.