Pfennig - Joseph Benedikt

The Bishopric of Chur held temporal authority over much of the Graubünden region, but by the early eighteenth century that authority was increasingly contested by the Swiss Confederation and the Grisons' own republican structures. Joseph Benedikt von Rost, who held the see from 1728 until his death in 1754, continued issuing coinage as an assertion of jurisdictional standing rather than practical monetary need — billon pfennigs of this weight circulated at the absolute floor of everyday commerce.

HMZ 1#2-472a is the only catalogued variety for this bishop's pfennig issue, suggesting a single uninterrupted die campaign across the full episcopate.