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E-auction 667-697587 - fjt_257563 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai de Galle à l'effigie de Mirabeau 1792

REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai de Galle à l effigie de Mirabeau AU
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Estimate : 200 €
Price : 132 €
Maximum bid : 165 €
End of the sale : 26 January 2026 19:42:40
bidders : 4 bidders
Type : Essai de Galle à l'effigie de Mirabeau
Date: (1792)
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : HONORE RIQUETTI / MIRABEAU..
Obverse description : Tête laurée à gauche de Mirabeau.

Reverse


Reverse legend : MÉTAL / DE CLOCHE / FRAPPÉ L’AN IER. / DE LA RÉPUB.QUE / FRANÇAISE, PAR / LES ARTISTES / RÉUNIS / DE LYON.
Reverse description : en neuf lignes dans le champ.

Commentary


La qualité du métal est remarquable par rapport aux frappes monétaires usuelles dites en “métal de cloche”.
Mirabeau (1749-1791) venait d'être nommé président de l'Assemblée quand il mourut le 2 avril. Il fut décidé que son corps serait transporté au Panthéon, affecté dès le 3 avril 1791 pour recevoir les grands hommes. Mirabeau fut le premier à y être inhumé. Il en sera enlevé et remplacé par Marat après le rapport défavorable de Chénier le 25 novembre 1793. D’après Hennin, p. 251, “le 25 août 1792, le député Reboul fit un rapport à l’Assemblée Législative sur des nouveaux procédés indiqués par des artistes de Lyon pour fabriquer des monnaies en métal de cloche, beaucoup plus parfaites que celles qui avaient été frappées, jusque-là. Il cita dans ce rapport de belles médailles qui avaient été présentées aux comités par ces mêmes artistes comme modèles et essais de ce qu’ils proposaient de faire en grand”. L’Assemblée Nationale adopta plusieurs décrets pour leur frappe.
The quality of the metal is remarkable compared to the usual coinage struck in “bell metal”. Mirabeau (1749-1791) had just been appointed President of the Assembly when he died on April 2. It was decided that his body would be transported to the Pantheon, assigned as early as April 3, 1791 to receive great men. Mirabeau was the first to be buried there. He would be removed and replaced by Marat after Chénier’s unfavorable report on November 25, 1793. According to Hennin, p. 251, “on August 25, 1792, the deputy Reboul made a report to the Legislative Assembly on new processes indicated by artists from Lyon for manufacturing coins in bell metal, much more perfect than those that had been struck until then. He cited in this report beautiful medals that had been presented to the committees by these same artists as models and tests of what they proposed to do on a large scale”. The National Assembly adopted several decrees for their strike

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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