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v08_1420 - COUR DES MONNAIES DE PARIS Jeton 1580

COUR DES MONNAIES DE PARIS Jeton XF
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 144.83 €
Type : Jeton
Date: 1580
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : brass
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et régulier. Haut relief au revers, un peu plus faible au droit. Jolie patine de collection
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : + CVRIA. MONE-TAR. FRANCIÆ +.
Obverse description : Écu de France couronné entouré du collier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel.
Obverse translation : (Cour des monnaies de France).

Reverse


Reverse legend : + PATET. FALLATIA. TANDEM..
Reverse description : Archimède à gauche trempant la couronne de Hiéron de Syracuse au-dessus d'une bassine d'eau et versant de l'eau dans la bassine à l'aide d'une aiguière ; à l'exergue 1580 ; derrière la bassine Archimède en grec.
Reverse translation : La supercherie est enfin découverte. Archimède.

Commentary


Au XVIe siècle, la Cour des monnaies de Paris fit frapper une grande diversité de jetons dont les motifs changeaient presque chaque année. L'iconographie du revers fait allusion à la découverte de l'hydrostatique par Archimède et à son fameux théorème : le roi de Syracuse, Hiéron, soupçonnant un orfèvre de lui avoir fabriqué une couronne d'or, frauduleusement alliée d'argent, demanda à Archimède de déterminer s'il y avait eu fraude sans détruire la couronne. Après maintes réflexions il trouva la solution dans sa baignoire. Le revers représente Archimède trempant la couronne de Hiéron dans une bassine afin d'en déterminer la densité.
In the 16th century, the Paris Mint minted a wide variety of tokens, the designs of which changed almost every year. The reverse iconography alludes to Archimedes' discovery of hydrostatics and his famous theorem: the king of Syracuse, Hiero, suspecting a goldsmith of having made him a gold crown, fraudulently alloyed with silver, asked Archimedes to determine whether there had been fraud without destroying the crown. After much thought, he found the solution in his bathtub. The reverse depicts Archimedes dipping Hiero's crown into a basin to determine its density.

Historical background


COUR DES MONNAIES DE PARIS

(1552-1791)

In the Middle Ages, the Chamber of coins, located in the Palace, in the same premises as the Chamber of Accounts, was responsible for monitoring mints.. In 1522, Francis I gave it the powers of a real court to judge cases relating to counterfeit coin.. In 1552, Henry II erected this Chamber into a sovereign court, better known as the Cour des coins de Paris. The Court of coins of Paris had, in addition to its judicial powers, a political function (remonstrances, drafting of certain edicts. . . ) and control over weights and measures (it kept in particular the so-called "Charlemagne" pile). From 1704 to 1771 it gave up part of its jurisdiction in favor of the Cour des coins de Lyon. The Paris coin Court was abolished in 1791, during the Revolution. The Provost General of coins was a company responsible for policing coins and enforcing the judgments of the Cour des coins in the 17th and 18th centuries.. At its head, the provost general of the coins was an officer established to know the crimes of counterfeit coin and to instruct summarily the trials of counterfeit coin, the proceedings of which were then presented to the Court of the coins.

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