fjt_1099877 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Feuilles de lierre n.d.
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Type : Porte-louis, Feuilles de lierre
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 40,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,10 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Charançon
Coments on the condition:
En partie noirci, trace d’oxydation et de rayures. Léger nettoyage et étain au niveau de la charnière de fermeture
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Feuilles de lierre .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : feuilles de lierre.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 31,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
on note deux poinçons Charançon sur le pourtour de l’emplacement. Le titrage est visible sur l’anneau de suspension et deux autres poinçons sont également présents mais difficile à identifier.
Dimensions without bail: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. Two Charançon hallmarks are visible around the edge of the slot. The coin's fineness is visible on the suspension ring, and two other hallmarks are also present but difficult to identify.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
on note deux poinçons Charançon sur le pourtour de l’emplacement. Le titrage est visible sur l’anneau de suspension et deux autres poinçons sont également présents mais difficile à identifier.
Dimensions without bail: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. Two Charançon hallmarks are visible around the edge of the slot. The coin's fineness is visible on the suspension ring, and two other hallmarks are also present but difficult to identify.
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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