Live auction - fjt_1006306 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, lisse n.d.
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| Estimate : | 40 € |
| Price : | 20 € |
| Maximum bid : | 20 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:31:38 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, lisse
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 52 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Trace de rayures et d’oxydations.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Dimensions : 34*44 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle présente un morceau de feutrine bleue, l’emplacement pour mettre la pièce, d’un métal cuivreux oxydé, est décoré d’un motif de rosace.
Dimensions: 34 x 44 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter). The inside of the lid is lined with blue felt, and the coin slot, made of oxidized copper-like metal, is decorated with a rosette pattern.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle présente un morceau de feutrine bleue, l’emplacement pour mettre la pièce, d’un métal cuivreux oxydé, est décoré d’un motif de rosace.
Dimensions: 34 x 44 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter). The inside of the lid is lined with blue felt, and the coin slot, made of oxidized copper-like metal, is decorated with a rosette pattern.
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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