The Abbey of Disentis, a Benedictine house in the Graubünden, held coinage rights as part of its broader jurisdictional autonomy within the Rhaetian territory — a privilege increasingly under pressure from secular cantonal authority through the early eighteenth century. Gallus von Florin served as abbot during a period when such small-denomination billon issues were more a statement of retained privilege than a practical monetary instrument.
At 0.17 g, attrition losses in circulation were effectively irreversible. Most surviving examples reached the present through hoards or ecclesiastical archives rather than active exchange.
The Abbey of Disentis, a Benedictine house in the Graubünden, held coinage rights as part of its broader jurisdictional autonomy within the Rhaetian territory — a privilege increasingly under pressure from secular cantonal authority through the early eighteenth century. Gallus von Florin served as abbot during a period when such small-denomination billon issues were more a statement of retained privilege than a practical monetary instrument.
At 0.17 g, attrition losses in circulation were effectively irreversible. Most surviving examples reached the present through hoards or ecclesiastical archives rather than active exchange.