bry_1102557 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron de 2 sols à la Liberté 1792 Birmingham, Soho
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Type : Monneron de 2 sols à la Liberté
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Birmingham, Soho
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,05 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux : LA. CONFIANCE. AUGMENTE. LA. VALEU[R]
Coments on the condition:
Monneron frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Petits chocs sur la tranche. Importantes usures et faiblesses de frappe. Rayures sur les deux faces. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LIBERTÉ - SOUS LA LOI.
Obverse description : Liberté assise à gauche, appuyée sur la Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme ; à l'exergue : L'AN IV. DE LA / LIBERTÉ, sur la table de la loi : DROITS / DE / L'HOMME / ARTIC. / V..
Reverse
Reverse legend : REVOLUTION FRANCAISE / 1792.
Reverse description : Au centre légende en six lignes : MEDAILLE / QUI [SE] VEND / DEUX-SOLS / A PARIS CHEZ / MONNERON / PATENTÉ.
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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