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| Estimate : | 60 € |
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| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:17:46 |
Type : Porte-louis, Monogrammé
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 63 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,06 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Crabe
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage et oxydation. Le métal présente des aspérités dans le métal
Obverse
Obverse legend : VM.
Obverse description : Monogramme dans un médaillon ovale entouré d’une forme en losange. Poinçon crabe et losange sur le bord de ce losangte.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Dimensions : 53,5*29,5 mm (en excluant le bouton poussoir)
Cet exemplaire, de forme rectangulaire aux coins arrondis, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une 10 francs or (diamètre : 19 mm).
Les emplacements présentent un motif irradiant du centre. L’intérieur du couvercle est couvert d’une feutrine bleue. Le porte-louis semble être en métal argenté. Seul le monogramme à l’avers semble être en argent.
Dimensions: 53.5 x 29.5 mm (excluding the push button). This rectangular coin holder with rounded corners opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (19 mm diameter). The slots feature a design radiating from the center. The inside of the lid is lined with blue felt. The coin holder appears to be made of silver-plated metal. Only the monogram on the obverse seems to be silver.
Cet exemplaire, de forme rectangulaire aux coins arrondis, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une 10 francs or (diamètre : 19 mm).
Les emplacements présentent un motif irradiant du centre. L’intérieur du couvercle est couvert d’une feutrine bleue. Le porte-louis semble être en métal argenté. Seul le monogramme à l’avers semble être en argent.
Dimensions: 53.5 x 29.5 mm (excluding the push button). This rectangular coin holder with rounded corners opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (19 mm diameter). The slots feature a design radiating from the center. The inside of the lid is lined with blue felt. The coin holder appears to be made of silver-plated metal. Only the monogram on the obverse seems to be silver.
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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