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Live auction - fjt_1009445 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-Louis, Allégorie de l’abondance n.d.
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | 115 € |
| Maximum bid : | 150 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:42:02 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Porte-Louis, Allégorie de l’abondance
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 65,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 31,71 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Tête de sanglier et losange
Coments on the condition:
Bel état, quelques traces d’oxydations. Traces de nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Jeune femme drapée et debout sur une roue ailée symbole de l’infini et du destin. Elle tient dans sa main gauche une corne d’abondance et de sa main droit sème des graines. Elle est accompagnée par un putti les bras remplit de fleurs. La scène est signé par E. Dropsy en bas à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Libellule volant prés d’une iris.
Commentary
Dimensions : 55*31,5 mm (sans la bélière)
Cet exemplaire, en forme de rectangle aux bords arrondis s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une monnaie de 10 francs or (20 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle encore doré présente le motif de l’avers en négatif, les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont guillochés formant un motif discret de rosace.
On retrouve sur la bélière deux poinçons têtes de sanglier et sur l’anneau de suspension un poinçon losange.
Dimensions: 55 x 31.5 mm (excluding the bail). This rectangular coin holder with rounded edges opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm diameter). The still-gilt interior of the lid features a negative image of the obverse design, and the coin slots are guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. The bail bears two boar's head hallmarks, and the suspension ring has a lozenge hallmark.
Cet exemplaire, en forme de rectangle aux bords arrondis s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une monnaie de 10 francs or (20 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle encore doré présente le motif de l’avers en négatif, les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont guillochés formant un motif discret de rosace.
On retrouve sur la bélière deux poinçons têtes de sanglier et sur l’anneau de suspension un poinçon losange.
Dimensions: 55 x 31.5 mm (excluding the bail). This rectangular coin holder with rounded edges opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm diameter). The still-gilt interior of the lid features a negative image of the obverse design, and the coin slots are guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. The bail bears two boar's head hallmarks, and the suspension ring has a lozenge hallmark.
Historical background
COIN PURSE, WALLET
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From the Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century, deniers, écus, and then the first francs and centimes, were carried in purses, alms pouches, or small leather change purses, often attached to the belt. When, in the second half of the 19th century, the Second Empire put into circulation more than one hundred million 20-franc gold coins minted with the image of Louis Napoleon III, it was necessary to create a safe and practical system for storing and individually transporting these precious coins. The craftsmen imagined the manufacture of a sort of coin box, which took the name of coin box, then gold holder, and quickly transformed into Louis holder, the first name of the Emperor, but also a reminder of the first gold Louis created at the end of the reign of Louis XIII in 1641.
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