Live auction - fjt_1008633 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Blason et feuille d’acanthe n.d.
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| Estimate : | 50 € |
| Price : | 25 € |
| Maximum bid : | 25 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:51:57 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Blason et feuille d’acanthe
Date: n.d.
Metal : gilt copper
Diameter : 44 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,26 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydations et rayures notamment à l’intérieur. Traces de nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Blason sur fond de feuilles d’acanthe stylisées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Blason sur fond de feuilles d’acanthe stylisées.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 34*32 mm.
Cet exemplaire, de forme carré, s’ouvre et permet de placer des 20 francs or (diamètre de 22,5 mm)
L’emplacement est décoré de cercle concentrique.
Dimensions without bail: 34 x 32 mm. This square-shaped example opens to hold 20-franc gold coins (22.5 mm diameter). The slot is decorated with concentric circles.
Cet exemplaire, de forme carré, s’ouvre et permet de placer des 20 francs or (diamètre de 22,5 mm)
L’emplacement est décoré de cercle concentrique.
Dimensions without bail: 34 x 32 mm. This square-shaped example opens to hold 20-franc gold coins (22.5 mm diameter). The slot is decorated with concentric circles.
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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