fjt_219065 - Covered market shop owners CHARLES LEFEBURE 1760

Covered market shop owners CHARLES LEFEBURE VF

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Price : 45.00 €

Type : CHARLES LEFEBURE

Date: 1760

Metal : red copper

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Weight : 10,19 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Petite fente au flan

Obverse

Obverse legend : CHARLES LEFEBURE 1760.

Obverse description : Trois poinçons en étoile.

Reverse

Reverse description : Semis d’étoiles poinçonnées irrégulières.

Commentary

Ces jetons de marchands portaient usuellement un dessin rappelant la profession (ici, les étoiles sont muettes : fleuriste ?) et servaient de passe, d’accès ou de reconnaissance.
Ils sont le plus souvent regravés sur un flan complètement usé d’une monnaie de circulation, ici très probablement un sou royal.

Historical background

Covered market shop owners

In Les Halles, in the various markets and circulating through the streets, there have always been quantities of small merchants called regrattiers, resellers, egg cups or simply indicated by this even more vague designation: "those who buy to resell". The traffic of this profession, necessarily poorly classified and open to all, consisted of supply goods, poultry, fish, eggs, butter, cheese, fruit and vegetables. However from the beginning it was regulated or at least there were some among them who put themselves in community and gave themselves statutes; they are the "regratiers de pain et d'esgrun". Installed in a shop and having a known domicile, recognizing apprentices, masters, jurors, buying the King's trade, one can follow their trail among the crowd of merchants doing the same trade without enjoying the advantage of association and regulations.