2 Gros - Aimo di Monfalcone

Aimo de Montfalcon — the spelling varies across sources — served as Bishop of Lausanne from 1491 until his death in 1517, a tenure marked by the diocese's increasingly awkward position between Savoyard territorial ambitions and the expanding influence of the Swiss Confederation. His coinage was struck under episcopal mint rights that were already an anachronism by the late fifteenth century, as secular Swiss cantons systematically absorbed or marginalized ecclesiastical monetary privileges throughout the period. Lausanne's own civic independence would effectively end with Bernese conquest in 1536, just two decades after this type was last produced.