E-auction 701-764954 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron de 5 sols au serment 1792 Birmingham, Soho
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Type : Monneron de 5 sols au serment
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Birmingham, Soho
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 25,36 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux : BON. POUR. LES. 83. DEPARTEMENTS.
Coments on the condition:
Monneron frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Quelques chocs sur la tranche. Importantes usures et faiblesses de frappe sur les deux faces. Présence de rayures. Patine sombre homogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [VI]VRE LIBR[E]S [OU M]OURIR / 14 JUILLET 1790.
Obverse description : Dans un médaillon, cérémonie du Pacte fédératif.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [REVOLUT]ION FRANÇAISE. / 1792.
Reverse description : MEDAILLE QUI SE / VEND / 5-SOLS A / PARIS CHEZ [MON]NERON / PATENTÉ. / - / L’AN IV. DE LA / LIBERTÉ, en sept lignes dans le champ.
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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