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Obol - Edward I, King of England
| Issuer | Ponthieu, County of |
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| Year | 1290 |
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| Value | 1 Obol (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A leopard passant to the left occupies the central field, rendered in the bold, stylized manner characteristic of thirteenth-century Anglo-French hammered coinage. The figure is set within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding legend in uncial Latin script. The type reflects the heraldic leopard of the English royal arms as employed on the coinage of the County of Ponthieu under English lordship. |
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Edward I acquired Ponthieu through his wife Eleanor of Castile, who inherited the county in 1279 upon the death of her brother Fernando. The county thus came under English administration not through conquest or treaty but through dynastic accident, and Edward exercised comital rights there until his death in 1307. Coinage struck in his name for Ponthieu belongs to a narrow administrative window, making survivors genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.