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Quart - Sebastiano di Monfalcone
| Issuer | Bishopric of Lausanne |
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| Year | 1517-1536 |
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| Weight | 0.99 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of the enthroned Madonna, crowned and nimbed, holding the Christ Child before her within a beaded inner circle. The Virgin's crown is prominently rendered in relief, and the infant Christ is depicted facing the viewer. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, with the mint legend distributed around the periphery in Gothic lettering. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sebastiano di Monfalcone served as Bishop of Lausanne from 1517 until the Reformation effectively ended episcopal authority in the region — the city of Lausanne formally adopted the Protestant faith in 1536, the same year the Bernese conquest of the Vaud brought the old ecclesiastical order to an abrupt close. These coins were struck during a diocese in its final decades of temporal power, and the quart denomination served everyday small transactions in a city that would soon have no use for Catholic episcopal coinage at all.