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Live auction - fjt_1076252 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, cuir n.d.
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| Estimate : | 40 € |
| Price : | 20 € |
| Maximum bid : | 20 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:25:00 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, cuir
Date: n.d.
Metal : leather
Diameter : 63,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,07 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Usure du cuir. Déchirure au niveau de la jointure avec le fermoir
Obverse
Obverse legend : LISSE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions du porte-monnaie : 63,5*64 mm ; au niveau de la fermeture : 43 mm
Porte-monnaie en cuir (intérieur et extérieur), prenant la forme d’une petite bourse, pouvant contenir dans son poussoir métallique des pièces d’un diamètre de 23,5 mm. On peut lire l’inscription suivante à l’intérieur : GRAND CAFE BRETIN / COMMENTRY (ALLIER) / TEL 9.
Coin purse dimensions: 63.5 x 64 mm; closure: 43 mm. Leather coin purse (inside and out), shaped like a small pouch, with a metal push-button that can hold coins up to 23.5 mm in diameter. The following inscription can be read inside: GRAND CAFE BRETIN / COMMENTRY (ALLIER) / TEL 9
Porte-monnaie en cuir (intérieur et extérieur), prenant la forme d’une petite bourse, pouvant contenir dans son poussoir métallique des pièces d’un diamètre de 23,5 mm. On peut lire l’inscription suivante à l’intérieur : GRAND CAFE BRETIN / COMMENTRY (ALLIER) / TEL 9.
Coin purse dimensions: 63.5 x 64 mm; closure: 43 mm. Leather coin purse (inside and out), shaped like a small pouch, with a metal push-button that can hold coins up to 23.5 mm in diameter. The following inscription can be read inside: GRAND CAFE BRETIN / COMMENTRY (ALLIER) / TEL 9
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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