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bry_566287 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai de Galle à la liberté 1792 (MDCCXCII) Lyon

REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai de Galle à la liberté 1792 (MDCCXCII) Lyon AU
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Type : Essai de Galle à la liberté
Date: 1792 (MDCCXCII) 
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 32,57 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Essai frappé sur un flan régulier laissant apparaître tout les grènetis. Patine hétérogène. Exemplaire présentant une usure régulière et de petites traces de coups
Catalogue references :
Hennin-  - VG.339 var. - Maz.318a  - Br.190b

Obverse

Obverse legend : LIBERTE FRANÇOISE.
Obverse description : Buste de la Liberté à gauche devant une pique sommée d’un bonnet de la Liberté ; au-dessous L’AN I. DE LA. R. F. ; GALLE sur le tranche du cou.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ‘A LA / CONVENTION / NATIONALE / PAR LES / ARTISTES REUNIS / DE LYON. / - / PUR METAL / DE CLOCHE / FRAPPE EN / MDCCXCII.
Reverse description : en 11 lignes dans le champ dans une couronne formée de deux branches de chênes nouées par un ruban.

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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