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Denier - Odo I
| Issuer | Issoudun, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1052-1085 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A large capital M, formed by two arched lobes surmounted by a smaller central element and flanked by decorative strokes, occupies the central field within a beaded inner circle. A pellet or ring appears beneath the M, and a horizontal stripe or bar is present above. The surrounding legend in uncial characters encircles the design along the coin's periphery, consistent with the feudal workshop style of the Lordship of Issoudun. |
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Odo I of Issoudun — known in sources as Eudes I — held the lordship during a period when Berry was contested ground between the counts of Bourges and the expanding influence of the French crown. The right to strike coin was itself a political instrument in this environment; local lords minted not merely for commerce but to assert jurisdictional autonomy in territories where overlordship was perpetually disputed.
The Poitou-referencing classification under Poey d'Avant places this issue within a broader Berry monetary group whose attributions were refined significantly by Duplessy's work on French feudal coinage.