Live auction - fjt_1008440 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Cigale, Allemagne n.d.
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | 200 € |
| Maximum bid : | 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:35:51 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, Cigale, Allemagne
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 75,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 32,50 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : GER SILVER
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydation et de rayures. Léger nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : L’étui prend la forme d’une cigale, ainsi on voit à l’avers les yeux et les ailes de celle-ci .
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions : 75,5*33 mm (sans compter l’anneau)
Cet exemplaire, en forme de cigale s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie d’un diamètre de 21 mm et une monnaie d’un diamètre de 18 mm.
Les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont fait de petits points.
A l’exergue des deux emplacements, la mention GER.SILVER au-dessus d’un globe portant la mention WHSCO.
Dimensions: 75.5 x 33 mm (excluding the ring). This cicada-shaped coin holder opens to hold one coin with a diameter of 21 mm and another with a diameter of 18 mm. The coin slots are marked with small dots. Above both slots is the inscription GER.SILVER above a globe bearing the inscription WHSCO.
Cet exemplaire, en forme de cigale s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie d’un diamètre de 21 mm et une monnaie d’un diamètre de 18 mm.
Les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont fait de petits points.
A l’exergue des deux emplacements, la mention GER.SILVER au-dessus d’un globe portant la mention WHSCO.
Dimensions: 75.5 x 33 mm (excluding the ring). This cicada-shaped coin holder opens to hold one coin with a diameter of 21 mm and another with a diameter of 18 mm. The coin slots are marked with small dots. Above both slots is the inscription GER.SILVER above a globe bearing the inscription WHSCO.
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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