Obol with mitre - Eustace of Levis

Eustace of Levis held the archiepiscopal see of Arles during a period when the city had only recently been absorbed into the French crown — Louis XI annexed Provence in 1481, a shift that effectively curtailed the independent coinage rights that Arles had exercised for centuries. Issues from Eustace's episcopate therefore straddle two political realities: the last years of genuine Provençal autonomy and the first years of French royal pressure on feudal minting privileges. The absence of a Boudeau number suggests this piece was either unknown or unresolved in that corpus at the time of publication.