Live auction - fjt_1075617 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Cadeau de Noël 1912
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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 30 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:22:21 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Cadeau de Noël
Date: 1912
Metal : silver
Diameter : 42,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,80 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Lion
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage. Coups et rayures (flan bosselé)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ARTHUR BENUELL / FROM / [...] / XMAS 1912.
Obverse description : Lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Diamètre sans le bouton poussoir : 31,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or ou un souverain (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse. L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace. On peut lire le chiffre 73 sous divers poinçons (ancre + lion + “n”) dans l’intérieur du couvercle. On retrouve également deux poinçons, le lion (fabrication anglais) et la lettre “n” (pour indiquer l’année de fabrication). Cet exemplaire a été attribué à Arthur Benuell (?) lors du Noël 1912.
Diameter without the push button: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin or a sovereign (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth. The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. The number 73 can be seen beneath various hallmarks (anchor + lion + “n”) inside the lid. Two other hallmarks are also present: the lion (English manufacture) and the letter “n” (indicating the year of manufacture). This example was attributed to Arthur Benuell (?) at Christmas 1912.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or ou un souverain (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse. L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace. On peut lire le chiffre 73 sous divers poinçons (ancre + lion + “n”) dans l’intérieur du couvercle. On retrouve également deux poinçons, le lion (fabrication anglais) et la lettre “n” (pour indiquer l’année de fabrication). Cet exemplaire a été attribué à Arthur Benuell (?) lors du Noël 1912.
Diameter without the push button: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin or a sovereign (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth. The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. The number 73 can be seen beneath various hallmarks (anchor + lion + “n”) inside the lid. Two other hallmarks are also present: the lion (English manufacture) and the letter “n” (indicating the year of manufacture). This example was attributed to Arthur Benuell (?) at Christmas 1912.
Historical background
COIN PURSE, WALLET
n/a
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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