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Dicken - Johann V
| Issuer | Chur, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1601 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | IOANNES·D G·EPIS:CVRI |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Johann V von Reding held the see of Chur from 1597 until his death in 1601, making this dicken one of the final issues of his episcopate. The Bishopric of Chur occupied an awkward political position in the early seventeenth century — nominally under Habsburg influence yet increasingly entangled with the emergent Graubünden league system, which would formalize Swiss cantonal structures over the following decades. Coinage from such brief and transitionally significant reigns rarely circulated far beyond the immediate alpine valleys.