Live auction - fjt_1008619 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, boîte d’allumettes, Royaume-Uni n.d.
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| Estimate : | 50 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 19:06:21 |
Type : Porte-louis, boîte d’allumettes, Royaume-Uni
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 70 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 37,50 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Couleurs en partie décoloré créant des taches dorée et argenté, traces de coups et de rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : lisse.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 70*33,5 mm (38 mm avec la bélière)
Cet exemplaire de forme rectangulaire aux coins arrondis peut contenir des pièces de 1£ (diamètre : 22,5 mm) d’un côté, des timbres dans le couvercle ; un réservoir à allumettes de l’autre avec un grattoir.
Dimensions without bail: 70 x 33.5 mm (38 mm with bail). This rectangular example with rounded corners can hold £1 coins (diameter: 22.5 mm) on one side, stamps in the lid, and a match holder with a striker on the other.
Cet exemplaire de forme rectangulaire aux coins arrondis peut contenir des pièces de 1£ (diamètre : 22,5 mm) d’un côté, des timbres dans le couvercle ; un réservoir à allumettes de l’autre avec un grattoir.
Dimensions without bail: 70 x 33.5 mm (38 mm with bail). This rectangular example with rounded corners can hold £1 coins (diameter: 22.5 mm) on one side, stamps in the lid, and a match holder with a striker on the other.
Historical background
COIN PURSE, WALLET
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From the Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century, deniers, écus, and then the first francs and centimes, were carried in purses, alms pouches, or small leather change purses, often attached to the belt. When, in the second half of the 19th century, the Second Empire put into circulation more than one hundred million 20-franc gold coins minted with the image of Louis Napoleon III, it was necessary to create a safe and practical system for storing and individually transporting these precious coins. The craftsmen imagined the manufacture of a sort of coin box, which took the name of coin box, then gold holder, and quickly transformed into Louis holder, the first name of the Emperor, but also a reminder of the first gold Louis created at the end of the reign of Louis XIII in 1641.
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