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Obole - Pons et roi Henri Ier
| Issuer | County of Toulouse |
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| Year | 1037-1060 |
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| Reference(s) | PA#LXXIX/19, Dy féodales#1204, Dy royales#30, Ciani#48, LP#40 |
| Obverse description | A Latin cross pattée occupies the central field, cantoned by a bezant in the first and second quarters. The cross is set within a beaded inner circle, around which runs the peripheral legend in retrograde-style rustic capitals. The die-cutting exhibits the characteristic crudeness of mid-eleventh-century feudal hammered coinage from southern France. |
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| Reverse description | The royal name REX is arranged in a triangular monogram formation at the centre of the field, reflecting the Carolingian monogram tradition adapted for feudal coinage. The letters are boldly rendered in relief within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a circular peripheral legend in rustic Latin capitals. The flan is irregular and the strike characteristically uneven, consistent with hammered silver obol production of the period. |
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Henri I of France granted Raymond IV of Toulouse the right to strike coins jointly in the king's name sometime in the mid-eleventh century — an arrangement that produced this curious bilingual authority, with both the Toulousain count and the Capetian crown sharing nominal credit on a single piece. The pairing reflects the fragile political accommodations of a period when the French crown's direct reach into the Midi was largely theoretical.
The "Pons" reference points to the bridge toll coinage tradition deeply embedded in Toulousain monetary practice.