Live auction - fjt_1008699 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Edelweiss n.d.
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| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | 40 € |
| Maximum bid : | 40 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:46:31 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Edelweiss
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydation et de rayures. Petite usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Sur un fond lisse, une fleur d’edelweiss.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sur un fond lisse, une fleur d’edelweiss.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 33,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une pièce de 20 Francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est doré et guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle est doré.
Dimensions without bail: 33.5 mm This round-shaped coin opens to hold a 20 Franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is gilded and guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. The inside of the lid is gilded
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une pièce de 20 Francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est doré et guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle est doré.
Dimensions without bail: 33.5 mm This round-shaped coin opens to hold a 20 Franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is gilded and guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. The inside of the lid is gilded
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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