bry_385807 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) 2 sols de Clémanson au faisceau 1792 Lyon
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : 2 sols de Clémanson au faisceau
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,23 g.
Edge : brute
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier présentant des coups sur la tranche. Présence de faiblesses de frappe
Obverse
Obverse legend : CLEMANSON ET CP NES PLACE CONFORT A LYON.
Obverse description : Faisceau surmonté d'une pique et d'un bonnet phrygien entouré de six drapeaux, d'un fût de canon et d'un tambour ; au-dessous, en deux lignes : L AN IV DE LA / LIBERTE’..
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIVRE LIBRE [OU] MOURIR******.
Reverse description : au centre en dix lignes : * / MEDAILLE- / DE CONFIANCE- / DE 2 [S]- / A ECHANGER CONTRE / DES ASSIGNAT ET- / MANDAT DE TOUTE / VALEUR- / M.DCC.XCII / *.
Historical background
REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…)
(1791-1793)
The Monneron Brothers made in England by Matthew Boulton, thanks to Watt's steam engine, coins of 2 and 5 sols in large quantities in the workshop of Soho in Birmingham, from the end of the year 1791. These emergency coins should have made up for the monetary shortage that reigned in France and their technical and aesthetic quality was far superior to the mediocre contemporary official productions in base metals. In March 1792, the Monnerons went bankrupt and Pierre fled. His brother Augustin took over the business, but a law of May 3, 1792 prohibited the manufacture of private coins. In September, a decree prohibits the marketing of trust coins. These coins of necessity circulated in fact until the end of 1793.
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