Denier

The Bishopric of Geneva exercised temporal coinage rights that were perpetually contested — the counts of Savoy spent much of the fourteenth century pressing legal and military claims against episcopal monetary privileges in the region. This issue falls squarely within the episcopate of Adhémar Fabri, the bishop who in 1387 granted Geneva its celebrated liberties charter, a document that effectively codified the commune's civic autonomy while leaving the bishop's minting authority formally intact.

HMZ 1#293 is among the thinner, lighter denier types produced before Geneva's monetary integration under Savoyard dominance became unavoidable in the following century.