Goldgulden - Johann V

The Bishopric of Chur held the right to strike gold coinage by imperial privilege, a status the bishops defended aggressively against encroachment from the Graubünden leagues throughout the early seventeenth century. Johann V von Flugi, who held the see from 1601 to 1627, navigated the increasingly fractious confessional politics of the region — Chur sat at the intersection of Catholic episcopal authority and the Reformed cantons — while maintaining enough monetary autonomy to produce this series across nearly a decade.

The HMZ 1#2-404a designation places this among a small group of documented die marriages for the type.