Live auction - fjt_1008642 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Royaume-Uni n.d.
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| Estimate : | 50 € |
| Price : | 25 € |
| Maximum bid : | 25 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:53:13 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Royaume-Uni
Date: n.d.
Metal : gilt metal
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,98 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydations important notamment dans l’intérieur du couvercle
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Autour d’un encart central s’enroulent divers motif floraux.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Lisse.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 31,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est orné du portrait à gauche de la reine Victoria. Le pourtour de l’emplacement est orné de vaguelettes.
Dimensions without bail: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is decorated with a portrait of Queen Victoria on the left. The edge of the slot is decorated with wavy lines.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est orné du portrait à gauche de la reine Victoria. Le pourtour de l’emplacement est orné de vaguelettes.
Dimensions without bail: 31.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is decorated with a portrait of Queen Victoria on the left. The edge of the slot is decorated with wavy lines.
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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