fjt_955464 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, niellé n.d.
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Type : Porte-louis, niellé
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 70,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 38,57 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé, notamment à l’intérieur. Présence de quelques rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Décor quadrillé niellé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Décor quadrillé niellé.
Commentary
Dimensions : 70,5*31,5 mm
Cet exemplaire, de forme rectangulaire, s’ouvre et permet de placer des pièces de 20 et 10 francs or (diamètres : 22,5 et 19,5 mm). Des poinçons sont présents entre les emplacements guillochés dont le titrage (800), le chiffre 86 et un poinçon d’orfèvre.
Dimensions: 70.5*31.5 mm This rectangular example opens and allows you to place 20 and 10 franc gold coins (diameters: 22.5 and 19.5 mm). Hallmarks are present between the guilloché locations including the title (800), the number 86 and a goldsmith's hallmark
Cet exemplaire, de forme rectangulaire, s’ouvre et permet de placer des pièces de 20 et 10 francs or (diamètres : 22,5 et 19,5 mm). Des poinçons sont présents entre les emplacements guillochés dont le titrage (800), le chiffre 86 et un poinçon d’orfèvre.
Dimensions: 70.5*31.5 mm This rectangular example opens and allows you to place 20 and 10 franc gold coins (diameters: 22.5 and 19.5 mm). Hallmarks are present between the guilloché locations including the title (800), the number 86 and a goldsmith's hallmark
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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