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Dicken - Thomas I
| Issuer | Lordship of Haldenstein |
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| Year | 1609-1628 |
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| Weight | 8.27 g |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with both heads shown in profile facing outward and surmounted by a single imperial crown above. A five-fold composite heraldic shield is superimposed on the eagle's breast, bearing the quartered arms of the lordship. The wings are spread and finely detailed with feather engraving. The Latin devotional legend, drawn from Psalm 17, encircles the eagle within a corded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haldenstein was among the smallest sovereign entities in the Holy Roman Empire — a tiny lordship in the Graubünden region of present-day Switzerland, controlling little more than a castle and its immediate surroundings. The right to strike coin there was jealously maintained as a mark of quasi-sovereign status, and the dicken series under Thomas I of Schauenstein-Haldenstein represents essentially the full output of the mint during his tenure. Issues attributable to this lordship are uncommon in any grade precisely because the productive capacity was negligible and the territory itself never generated significant commercial traffic requiring hard currency.