Live auction - fjt_1006498 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Frise florale n.d.
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| Estimate : | 4 000 € |
| Price : | 3 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:10:56 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Frise florale
Date: n.d.
Metal : gold
Diameter : 68 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 42,38 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Tête d'aigle
Coments on the condition:
Bel état, patine brillante, quelques rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Dans un rectangle arrondi des motifs de chevrons entourés d’une banderole florale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Dans un rectangle des motifs de chevrons entourés d’une banderole florale.
Commentary
Dimensions : 60,5*30 mm (sans compter l’anneau de suspension).
Cet exemplaire, en forme de rectangle aux coins arrondis, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22 mm) et une monnaie de 10 francs or (20 mm).
Les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont guillochés formant un motif de rosace.
Sur la bélière, un poinçon triangulaire (probablement un losange à demi frappé) avec un E et un poinçon tête d’aigle sont visibles. Le poinçon tête d’aigle est visible à divers endroits du porte-louis : sur les bords des couvercles extérieurs (avers et revers), sur l’anneau de suspension, sur les rebords des emplacements guillochés pour les monnaies.
Dimensions: 60.5 x 30 mm (excluding the suspension ring). This rectangular coin holder with rounded corners opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm diameter). The coin slots are guilloché-engraved in a rosette pattern. A triangular hallmark (likely a half-struck lozenge) with an \\\"E\\\" and an eagle's head hallmark are visible on the suspension loop. The eagle's head hallmark appears in various locations on the coin holder: on the edges of the outer lids (obverse and reverse), on the suspension ring, and on the edges of the guilloché coin slots.
Cet exemplaire, en forme de rectangle aux coins arrondis, s’ouvre et permet de placer une monnaie 20 francs Or (diamètre : 22 mm) et une monnaie de 10 francs or (20 mm).
Les emplacements pour mettre les pièces sont guillochés formant un motif de rosace.
Sur la bélière, un poinçon triangulaire (probablement un losange à demi frappé) avec un E et un poinçon tête d’aigle sont visibles. Le poinçon tête d’aigle est visible à divers endroits du porte-louis : sur les bords des couvercles extérieurs (avers et revers), sur l’anneau de suspension, sur les rebords des emplacements guillochés pour les monnaies.
Dimensions: 60.5 x 30 mm (excluding the suspension ring). This rectangular coin holder with rounded corners opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm diameter). The coin slots are guilloché-engraved in a rosette pattern. A triangular hallmark (likely a half-struck lozenge) with an \\\"E\\\" and an eagle's head hallmark are visible on the suspension loop. The eagle's head hallmark appears in various locations on the coin holder: on the edges of the outer lids (obverse and reverse), on the suspension ring, and on the edges of the guilloché coin slots.
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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