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Obol - Rudolf III Lyon mint, temple
| Issuer | Arles, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 993-1032 |
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| Currency | Pound (933-1366) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a stylized temple or church façade in the central field, rendered in schematic form with a rectangular outline and vertical lines suggesting columns or a portal, consistent with the Lyon mint type derived from Carolingian architectural motifs. The structure is set within a plain inner rectangle. The circular Latin legend LVGVDVNVS surrounds the design along the outer rim, preceded by a cross, identifying the Lyon mint. The flan is irregular and the strike slightly weak at the edges, as is typical of hammered feudal billon coinage of this period. |
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Rudolf III was the last independent king of Burgundy, and this obol was struck during the slow dissolution of his authority — a reign defined by his inability to hold territory against encroaching nobles. When he died in 1032 without an heir, the Kingdom of Burgundy passed to the Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II under a succession agreement Rudolf had been pressured into signing decades earlier. The Lyon mint's output from this period is consequently finite; no successor Arlesian royal coinage followed.