Live auction - fjt_1008724 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Étoiles n.d.
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 50 € |
| Maximum bid : | 50 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:28:29 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Étoiles
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 43 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,80 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Tête de sanglier et losange
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydations et de rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Au centre du médaillon un encart rond entouré d’étoiles, l’ensemble est ceint par quatre branches de laurier. Le reste de l’étui est rempli par des motifs d’étoile .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Etoiles .
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 33 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une pièce de 20 francs (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
On note deux poinçons tête de sanglier sur la bélière .
Dimensions without bail: 33 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. Two boar's head hallmarks are visible on the bail.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une pièce de 20 francs (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
On note deux poinçons tête de sanglier sur la bélière .
Dimensions without bail: 33 mm. This round example opens to hold a 20-franc coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. Two boar's head hallmarks are visible on the bail.
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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