The Bishopric of Lausanne's temporal authority was already visibly eroding by the time Sébastien de Montfalcon took office — Bern and Fribourg had long been squeezing the bishop's secular power, and the Reformation would extinguish it entirely within a generation. Montfalcon himself was the last bishop to exercise any meaningful civil jurisdiction over Lausanne before the city fell to Bern in 1536, the very year his coinage ceased.
The soldino denomination was a minor transactional coin, and survivors in collectible condition are scarce precisely because they were spent hard in a diocese under constant political pressure.
The Bishopric of Lausanne's temporal authority was already visibly eroding by the time Sébastien de Montfalcon took office — Bern and Fribourg had long been squeezing the bishop's secular power, and the Reformation would extinguish it entirely within a generation. Montfalcon himself was the last bishop to exercise any meaningful civil jurisdiction over Lausanne before the city fell to Bern in 1536, the very year his coinage ceased.
The soldino denomination was a minor transactional coin, and survivors in collectible condition are scarce precisely because they were spent hard in a diocese under constant political pressure.