Denier - Odo Soissons mint

Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king in 888 by the West Frankish nobility after Charles the Fat proved unable to defend the realm against Viking siege — his coinage is therefore a direct product of political rupture within the Carolingian dynasty. The Soissons mint had operated under Carolingian authority for generations, and Odo's appropriation of it was a pointed assertion of royal legitimacy by a non-Carolingian ruler. His reign ended in 898 when Charles the Simple, the legitimate Carolingian heir, finally displaced him.