Dicken

Uri was the smallest of the original Swiss forest cantons, yet it maintained its own coinage rights fiercely. The Dicken series of this period was struck at a moment when the canton's strategic position controlling the Saint Gotthard Pass gave it outsized political leverage relative to its population — that pass was the most direct Alpine route between northern Europe and Italy, and the revenue it generated funded exactly these kinds of sovereignty-asserting monetary issues.

Production across the 1617–1622 window was sporadic rather than continuous, tied to intermittent arrangements with neighboring minting facilities rather than a permanent cantonal mint.