Live auction - fjt_1076003 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Fleur n.d.
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| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | 43 € |
| Maximum bid : | 45 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:47:11 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, Fleur
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 40,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,14 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : 800
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage. Petite usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Représentation d’une fleur, probablement une perce neige.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Représentation d’une fleur, probablement une perce neige.
Commentary
Diamètre sans le bouton-poussoir : 30,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant une rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle reprend le motif extérieur en négatif. Le titrage est visible sur l’anneau de suspension.
Diameter without the push button: 30.5 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 21.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a rosette. The inside of the lid repeats the exterior motif in negative. The mintage is visible on the suspension ring.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour mettre la pièce est guilloché formant une rosace. L’intérieur du couvercle reprend le motif extérieur en négatif. Le titrage est visible sur l’anneau de suspension.
Diameter without the push button: 30.5 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 21.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a rosette. The inside of the lid repeats the exterior motif in negative. The mintage is visible on the suspension ring.
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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