Live auction - fjt_1008670 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Royaume-Uni (1911)
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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 30 € |
| Maximum bid : | 35 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:54:33 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Porte-louis, Motifs floraux, Royaume-Uni
Date: (1911)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,83 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Lion
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydations et de rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : HJC.
Obverse description : Le décor s’organise autour d’un encart circulaire inscrit du monogramme HC qui est entouré de motifs floraux s’enroulant sans laisser de place .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Reverse description : Le décor s’organise autour de motifs floraux s’enroulant sans laisser de place .
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 30,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
On note divers poinçons, sur l’intérieur du couvercle : un lion passant, une ancre, un M et WN. On retrouve le lion et le M sur le pourtour de l’emplacement. Sur l’anneau de suspension on retrouve également un lion et sur le bouton poussoir/bélière le M et le lion, ainsi que la mention “A. L. D.”.
Dimensions without bail: 30.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. Various hallmarks are visible on the inside of the lid: a passant lion, an anchor, an M, and WN. The lion and the M are repeated around the edge of the coin slot. A lion is also found on the suspension ring, and the push button/bail features the M and the lion, as well as the inscription “ALD”.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer un souverain (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché formant un motif discret de rosace.
On note divers poinçons, sur l’intérieur du couvercle : un lion passant, une ancre, un M et WN. On retrouve le lion et le M sur le pourtour de l’emplacement. Sur l’anneau de suspension on retrouve également un lion et sur le bouton poussoir/bélière le M et le lion, ainsi que la mention “A. L. D.”.
Dimensions without bail: 30.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a discreet rosette pattern. Various hallmarks are visible on the inside of the lid: a passant lion, an anchor, an M, and WN. The lion and the M are repeated around the edge of the coin slot. A lion is also found on the suspension ring, and the push button/bail features the M and the lion, as well as the inscription “ALD”.
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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