Denier - Hugh I

Corbie's minting rights traced back to a royal grant of considerable antiquity, but the abbey's coinage by the late twelfth century was operating under chronic pressure from the expanding monetary authority of the Capetian crown. Hugh I held the abbacy during a period when Philip II was still consolidating power — the coins struck in his name represent one of the last generations of genuinely independent ecclesiastical issues from the region before royal monetary policy began absorbing such privileges.