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Denier - Guillaume de Challant
| Issuer | Bishopric of Lausanne |
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| Year | 1406-1420 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized temple or cathedral facade in high relief, featuring a pitched roof with a cross at its apex and three rounded arches supported by columns below. A small ring or annulet appears beneath the temple, flanked by two dots, all set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend in uncial Latin script reads + SEDES LAVSANE, referencing the episcopal see of Lausanne. The overall design is characteristic of medieval ecclesiastical billon coinage, struck on an irregularly shaped flan with typical hammered die production. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Guillaume de Challant served as Bishop of Lausanne from 1406 until his death in 1433, though coinage attributed to his episcopate is conventionally dated to the earlier portion of his reign. The Bishopric of Lausanne held secular minting rights as a territorial prince of the Holy Roman Empire, a privilege that put its small billon issues into direct commercial competition with Savoyard and Bernese currency circulating through the same Alpine trade routes.
HMZ 1#1-498a is among the scarcer documented episcopal issues from the Lake Geneva region.