Live auction - fjt_1075614 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, lisse n.d.
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| Estimate : | 50 € |
| Price : | 30 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:30:58 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, lisse
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 925 ‰
Diameter : 42,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,80 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : 925
Coments on the condition:
Traces de manipulation et nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Diamètre sans le bouton poussoir : 31,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse ainsi que l’emplacement pour mettre la pièce. On peut lire le chiffre 925 (pour le titrage) sur le bord du couvercle intérieur. On retrouve également sur l’anneau de suspension le titrage “925” et les lettres CME.
Diameter without the push button: 31.5 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth, as is the coin slot. The number 925 (for the fineness) is visible on the rim of the inner lid. The suspension ring also bears the fineness “925” and the letters CME.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 21,5 mm).
L’intérieur du couvercle est lisse ainsi que l’emplacement pour mettre la pièce. On peut lire le chiffre 925 (pour le titrage) sur le bord du couvercle intérieur. On retrouve également sur l’anneau de suspension le titrage “925” et les lettres CME.
Diameter without the push button: 31.5 mm. This round coin holder opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 21.5 mm). The inside of the lid is smooth, as is the coin slot. The number 925 (for the fineness) is visible on the rim of the inner lid. The suspension ring also bears the fineness “925” and the letters CME.
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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