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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 67 € |
| Maximum bid : | 73 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:29:38 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, guilloché
Date: (1893)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,13 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Lion
Coments on the condition:
Traces de manipulation et léger nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Motif guilloché prenant l’aspect d’une fleur à partir d’une fleur.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Motif guilloché prenant l’aspect d’une fleur à partir d’un point central.
Commentary
Diamètre sans le bouton poussoir : 30,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or ou un souverain (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse. L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant un motif de ronds concentriques et de vagues. On peut retrouver divers poinçons (”t” + ancre + lion + tête de femme à gauche) dans l’intérieur du couvercle. On retrouve également le poinçon de la lettre “t” (pour indiquer l’année de fabrication) sur le rebord de l’emplacement de la monnaie. On retrouve le poinçon “lion” sur l’anneau de suspension .
Diameter without the push button: 30.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin or a sovereign (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth. The coin slot is guilloché, forming a pattern of concentric circles and waves. Various hallmarks (\\\"t\\\" + anchor + lion + woman's head facing left) can be found inside the lid. The letter \\\"t\\\" hallmark (indicating the year of manufacture) is also found on the rim of the coin slot. The \\\"lion\\\" hallmark is found on the suspension ring.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or ou un souverain (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse. L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant un motif de ronds concentriques et de vagues. On peut retrouver divers poinçons (”t” + ancre + lion + tête de femme à gauche) dans l’intérieur du couvercle. On retrouve également le poinçon de la lettre “t” (pour indiquer l’année de fabrication) sur le rebord de l’emplacement de la monnaie. On retrouve le poinçon “lion” sur l’anneau de suspension .
Diameter without the push button: 30.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin or a sovereign (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth. The coin slot is guilloché, forming a pattern of concentric circles and waves. Various hallmarks (\\\"t\\\" + anchor + lion + woman's head facing left) can be found inside the lid. The letter \\\"t\\\" hallmark (indicating the year of manufacture) is also found on the rim of the coin slot. The \\\"lion\\\" hallmark is found on the suspension ring.
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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