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Dicken - Johann V
| Issuer | Bishopric of Chur |
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| Year | 1620-1621 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1565-1581) |
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| Obverse description | Half-length figure of Saint Lucius facing right, holding an orb in one hand and a scepter in the other, with the episcopal shield of Chur positioned below the figure. The encircling Latin legend incorporates the date and identifies the issuing bishop. The design is rendered in the robust Germanic hammered style typical of early seventeenth-century Swiss ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | SI:DEVS:PRO:NOB:Q:CON:NOS: |
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Johann V Flugi von Aspermont served as Bishop of Chur from 1601 until his death in 1627, presiding over a diocese caught between competing Habsburg and Graubünden cantonal pressures during the opening years of the Thirty Years' War. The 1620–1621 date range on this issue corresponds almost exactly to the Bündner Wirren — the violent political crisis in the Grisons that saw the assassination of Pompejus Planta in 1621 and direct Spanish military intervention in the alpine passes. Chur's mint output during these years was fitful at best.