fjt_1099871 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Motifs floraux n.d.
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Type : Porte-louis, Motifs floraux
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 43 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,40 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Tête de sanglier et losange
Coments on the condition:
Légérement noirci, quelques rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE .
Obverse description : Sur un fond cannelé se distingue un encart vierge de forme d’ovale. L’encart est accosté de part et d’autre de branches de laurier et feuilles d’acanthe à l’exergue. Flambeau et carquois au sommet séparé par un noeud.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Reverse description : Décor cannelé.
Commentary
Dimensions sans bélière : 32,5 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. L’intérieur du couvercle est doré.
On distingue trois poinçons “tête de sanglier” et un losange sur la bélière et l’anneau de suspension.
Dimensions without bail: 32.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. The inside of the lid is gilt. Three boar's head hallmarks and a lozenge are visible on the bail and suspension ring.
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. L’intérieur du couvercle est doré.
On distingue trois poinçons “tête de sanglier” et un losange sur la bélière et l’anneau de suspension.
Dimensions without bail: 32.5 mm. This round example opens to hold a sovereign (diameter: 22.5 mm). The coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. The inside of the lid is gilt. Three boar's head hallmarks and a lozenge are visible on the bail and suspension ring.
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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