fjt_1099836 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Bosselage n.d.
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Type : Porte-louis, Bosselage
Date: n.d.
Metal : gilt copper
Diameter : 51 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Bel état, traces d’oxdation créant sur l’extérieur des reflet cuivré et doré. Trace d’un coup et de griffure au revers.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Etui bosselé .
Reverse
Reverse legend : C(...) DE FOURVIERE .
Reverse description : Etui bosselé.
Commentary
Dimensions : 33*43 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur présente un bosselage en négatif, l’emplacement pour la pièce est décoré d’un guillochage formant un motif discret de rosace. .
Dimensions: 33 x 43 mm. This round coin opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The interior features a raised relief, and the coin slot is decorated with guilloché engraving forming a subtle rosette pattern.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur présente un bosselage en négatif, l’emplacement pour la pièce est décoré d’un guillochage formant un motif discret de rosace. .
Dimensions: 33 x 43 mm. This round coin opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The interior features a raised relief, and the coin slot is decorated with guilloché engraving forming a subtle rosette pattern.
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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