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| Estimate : | 180 € |
| Price : | 94 € |
| Maximum bid : | 165 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:48:31 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, Pivoine, Suisse
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰
Diameter : 46 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,35 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydation et de rayures. Traces de nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation d’une pivoine. Signé : DE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Représentation d’une pivoine .
Commentary
Dimensions : 40*33 mm (en incluant la bélière et sans l’anneau)
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur présente une paroi lisse, l’emplacement pour la pièce est poinçonné, on note un poinçon indiquant NIEL HF pour “Hugeunin frères” (Suisse), un poinçon “84 / 0.875” pour le titrage de l’argent et enfin un croisant de lune et une couronne, symbole de la garantie allemande, le tout inscrit sur une base guilloché.
Dimensions: 40 x 33 mm (including the bail and excluding the ring). This round coin opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The interior has a smooth wall, and the coin slot is hallmarked. It also features a hallmark indicating NIEL HF for “Hugeunin frères” (Switzerland), a hallmark “84 / 0.875” for the silver content, and finally, a crescent moon and crown, the symbol of the German guarantee, all inscribed on a guilloché base.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm).
L’intérieur présente une paroi lisse, l’emplacement pour la pièce est poinçonné, on note un poinçon indiquant NIEL HF pour “Hugeunin frères” (Suisse), un poinçon “84 / 0.875” pour le titrage de l’argent et enfin un croisant de lune et une couronne, symbole de la garantie allemande, le tout inscrit sur une base guilloché.
Dimensions: 40 x 33 mm (including the bail and excluding the ring). This round coin opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The interior has a smooth wall, and the coin slot is hallmarked. It also features a hallmark indicating NIEL HF for “Hugeunin frères” (Switzerland), a hallmark “84 / 0.875” for the silver content, and finally, a crescent moon and crown, the symbol of the German guarantee, all inscribed on a guilloché base.
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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