Live auction - fjt_1075604 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Cochon n.d.
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 320 € |
| Maximum bid : | 320 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:36:42 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, Cochon
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,18 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène nettoyée. Présence de traces de rayures et taches d’oxydation. Quelques coups
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Représentation d’un cochon assis. La bélière et le bouton pressoir forme la queue en tire-bouchon. .
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions : 55x29 mm
Cet exemplaire, en forme de cochon, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
Les emplacements pour les pièces sont guillochés créant un motif discret de rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle présente le motif de l’avers en négatif. Le chiffre 5 en bas.
Dimensions: 55 x 29 mm. This pig-shaped coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter). The coin slots are guilloché, creating a subtle rosette pattern. The inside of the lid features a negative image of the obverse design. The number 5 is at the bottom.
Cet exemplaire, en forme de cochon, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
Les emplacements pour les pièces sont guillochés créant un motif discret de rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle présente le motif de l’avers en négatif. Le chiffre 5 en bas.
Dimensions: 55 x 29 mm. This pig-shaped coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter). The coin slots are guilloché, creating a subtle rosette pattern. The inside of the lid features a negative image of the obverse design. The number 5 is at the bottom.
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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