Obol - Raymond I

Raymond I governed Narbonne during a period when Carolingian monetary authority had effectively dissolved, leaving regional lords to strike on their own initiative with minimal oversight. The Narbonnaise issues of this period are among the more elusive of the southern French feudal series — small, lightly silvered, and struck in quantities that never approached the output of the great ecclesiastical mints to the north. The Dy féodales reference itself treats the type with notable brevity, reflecting how little documentary evidence survives for the viscounty's minting operations during Raymond's tenure.