Obol - Philip I Mâcon

Philip I's reign saw the Capetian monarchy at one of its lowest points of feudal fragmentation — the king controlled little beyond the Île-de-France, and local lords struck their own coinages with near impunity. The Mâcon obol sits in that contested monetary environment: Mâcon was a county whose overlapping claims between Burgundy and the French crown made its attribution a recurring problem for medieval monetyers and modern catalogers alike.

At 0.44g, these pieces circulated hard and survive in worn condition almost without exception.