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Obol - Lothair II Bourges mint
| Issuer | Lothair II (King of West Francia) |
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| Year | 954-986 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ LOTERIVS REX (Translation: Lothair, king.) |
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| Reverse lettering | BITV/RICE (Translation: City of Bourges.) |
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Lothair II inherited West Francia in 954 at age thirteen, and his thirty-two year reign was consumed almost entirely by an exhausting struggle against the Carolingian pretender Charles of Lorraine and an increasingly assertive Capetian nobility. The Bourges mint, operating under royal authority in Berry, issued this obol during a period when the king's actual control over his moneyers was more nominal than real — local magnates and ecclesiastical lords were quietly absorbing minting rights across the kingdom. Lothair died in 986, and within two years the Carolingian line itself was extinguished, replaced by Hugh Capet.