Dicken - Thomas I

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.