Pfennig - Gallus von Florin

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.