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Parpaiolle - Guillaume de Varax
| Issuer | Bishopric of Lausanne |
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| Year | 1462-1466 |
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| Weight | 2.27 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Guillaume de Varax held the see of Lausanne for just four years before his death in 1466, making his coinage among the shortest-lived episcopal issues in the region. The parpaiolle itself was a small fractional denomination circulating widely across Savoy and the western Swiss territories in the mid-fifteenth century, its name derived from a Provençal term for butterfly — a reference debated by scholars but plausibly linked to the spread-wing appearance of certain heraldic devices on earlier issues of the type.
HMZ 1#509a is the sole documented variety attributed to his episcopate.