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| Issuer | Bishopric of Chur |
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| Year | 1002-1026 |
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| Value | 1 Denier |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross dividing the reverse into four cantons, each containing a pellet, forming a cross-and-pellet design typical of Ottonian-era episcopal coinage. The surrounding legend CVRIA CIVITAS, identifying the city of Chur (Curia), is distributed around the cross in rough, irregular Latin capitals. The flan is irregular and of variable thickness, consistent with hand-hammered production. The overall style reflects the primitive but purposeful die work of early 11th-century Swiss episcopal mints. |
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| Mintage | ND (1002-1026) |
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The Bishopric of Chur received the right to strike coinage from Henry II in 1002, one of several grants the emperor made to ecclesiastical lords as a means of consolidating loyal authority across the Alpine passes — routes of enormous strategic and commercial importance to the Ottonian and early Salian court. Chur's position at the head of the Via Mala made episcopal control over local currency a matter of practical politics, not mere privilege.
Henry II canonized in 1146, the only German emperor ever to receive that distinction.