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Denier - Odo Toulouse mint, ODO GRATIA D- RE
| Issuer | West Francia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 887-898 |
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| Currency | Pound (840-987) |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a plain cross pattée enclosed within a beaded inner circle, dividing the field into four quadrants. This cross type is a standard Carolingian reverse motif, executed in a bold, somewhat irregular hammered style. The surrounding legend, reading in two parts separated by cross stops, identifies the mint city of Toulouse. The outer field shows the legend in large, slightly uneven Latin capitals, consistent with the provincial workshop production of the Toulouse mint under Odo's reign. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king by the western Frankish nobility in 888 after Charles the Fat proved incapable of defending the realm — his failure to relieve the Siege of Paris in 885–886 had made his deposition inevitable. Odo's coinage from Toulouse is particularly pointed: striking in his own name from a mint deep in the south signaled effective royal authority over a city that had every reason to look toward its own counts rather than a Robertian upstart from the Île-de-France.
The reign lasted only to 898, when the Carolingian claimant Charles the Simple finally displaced him.