Obole - Philippe Ier Mâcon, 2e type

Philip I inherited a French crown that controlled remarkably little of what it nominally ruled — the Capetian royal domain in the 1060s was a narrow strip around Paris and Orléans, hemmed in by more powerful vassals on every side. The comté of Mâcon had passed through Burgundian hands before coming under greater royal influence, and coinage struck there under Philip's authority reflects that fragmented feudal reality: local mints operated with significant autonomy, producing issues that varied substantially in execution even within a single type classification.

The second-type designation distinguishes this issue from the earlier Mâconnais production on specific die and stylistic grounds documented in the Duplessy sequence.