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Denier - Odo II of Blois

Issuer County of Soissons
Year 1000-1037
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Currency Livre
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Obverse lettering ✠ [...] CVT N
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Edge Plain
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Odo II was one of the most powerful and ambitious magnates in early 11th-century France, holding simultaneously the counties of Blois, Chartres, Champagne, and Meaux, and repeatedly contesting the kingdom of Burgundy through both diplomacy and force. His eventual death at the Battle of Bar in 1037 — fighting against Emperor Conrad II — ended a career of near-constant territorial expansion. That Soissons issued in his name reflects the degree to which comital authority had fragmented Carolingian administrative geography into competing minting jurisdictions by this period.

The absence of Boudeau and Poey d'Avant references suggests this type remains unplaced in the standard French feudal corpus — a genuine attribution gap rather than a cataloging oversight.

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