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Denier - Guillaume de Monthonay
| Issuer | Bishopric of Lausanne |
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| Year | 1394-1406 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a stylized Romanesque church or chapel facade depicted in low relief, with a triangular gabled roof, two flanking towers, and a central doorway, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The architectural motif is rendered in a simplified Gothic style characteristic of late medieval episcopal coinage. The surrounding legend reads + SFDFS LAVSANF in uncial Latin characters, referencing the see of Lausanne. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven, as typical of hammered billon deniers of this period. |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a plain cross pattee with a small annulet or pellet in one quarter, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The cross divides the inner field into four quadrants and is rendered in the bold, simple style common to medieval episcopal deniers. The surrounding legend reads + CIVITAS LOSINI in uncial Latin characters, referencing the city of Lausanne (Losanna). The hammered flan exhibits the characteristic irregular edge and uneven strike typical of late 14th to early 15th century billon coinage. |
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Guillaume de Monthonay governed the Bishopric of Lausanne during a period when the Western Schism had fractured Catholic ecclesiastical authority across Europe, leaving regional bishops navigating competing papal obediences. Lausanne under Guillaume aligned with the Avignon papacy, a political stance that shaped the bishop's relationships with both the Duke of Savoy and the Swiss Confederation pressing from the north.
Episcopal billon coinage of this type circulated primarily within the Vaud region, functioning as small-denomination currency in local markets well before Lausanne's secular independence was effectively absorbed by Bern in 1536.