Pfennig - Henry VI

Henry VI of Brandis served as Bishop of Chur from 1491 to 1517, presiding over a diocese that occupied one of the most strategically critical alpine corridors in late medieval Europe. The Graubünden passes connecting the Italian peninsula to the German lands made Chur's ecclesiastical mint politically significant well beyond the coin's modest silver content. These fractional issues circulated primarily within the Rhine Valley trade networks feeding into the larger Swiss Confederation economy.

The HMZ 1#2-379a attribution places this piece within a tightly documented regional series, though surviving examples are thin on the ground given the denomination's rough daily-use circulation.