Obol anonymous

The County of Chartres passed to the French royal domain in 1286 when Philip IV purchased it from Jeanne de Châtillon, effectively ending independent coinage rights for the region within a generation. This anonymous obol, unattributable to a specific count, was likely struck under one of the Châtillon lords during the mid-to-late thirteenth century, a period when feudal billon coinage was under increasing pressure from Capetian monetary centralization.