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.
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.