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Obol - Odo Toulouse mint, ODDO REX FR
| Issuer | Odo, King of West Francia |
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| Year | 887-898 |
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| Value | 1 Obol (1⁄480) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the name ODDO arranged in cruciform monogram fashion within a beaded inner circle, a device common to Carolingian royal coinage whereby the ruler's name is intertwined in a cross-like pattern. The surrounding legend reads +TOLOSA CIVI, identifying the mint city of Toulouse. The lettering is in Carolingian majuscule script. The overall design reflects the standard Carolingian monetary convention of pairing the royal monogram with the mint place name. The flan exhibits the typical irregular outline of a hammered silver obol of this era. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ TOLOSA CIVI (Translation: City of Toulouse.) |
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Odo was not a Carolingian. He was elected king in 888 by the West Frankish nobility after Charles the Fat proved unable to defend the realm against Viking raids — a remarkable breach in dynastic succession that the Carolingians never entirely accepted. His reign was contested almost immediately by the Carolingian claimant Charles the Simple, and the two maintained a fragile, shifting co-existence until Odo's death in 898. Coinage struck at Toulouse under his name asserted royal authority over a region where that authority was genuinely in dispute.