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Denier - Sede Vacante
| Issuer | Lausanne, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1050 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized architectural facade depicting a temple or church with a pitched roof surmounted by a cross, featuring an arched doorway and an arched window in the gable; three pellets arranged horizontally appear below the structure at the base. The design is rendered in the bold, somewhat naive relief characteristic of 11th-century Carolingian-influenced hammered coinage. A circular legend surrounds the central motif, the lettering partially retrograde and irregularly spaced due to the hand-struck technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sede vacante coins were struck during the vacancy between episcopal appointments, when cathedral chapters exercised temporary temporal authority. The Lausanne bishopric occupied a strategically contested position between Burgundian and imperial spheres, and the right to coin during vacancies was itself a jealously guarded prerogative — one that Holy Roman emperors periodically challenged throughout the eleventh century.
HMZ 1#1-485a is among the earliest documented Lausanne deniers, predating the fuller episcopal series that emerges under confirmed bishops later in the century.