Live auction - fjt_1075613 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Tête de cheval n.d.
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 310 € |
| Maximum bid : | 320 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 18:37:17 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, Tête de cheval
Date: n.d.
Metal : various
Diameter : 61 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 34,06 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec quelques traces de rayures, usure et taches d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de cheval de face sur l'entièreté de la surface.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions : 53*29 mm (Sans la bélière)
Cet exemplaire, de forme d’ovale s’ouvre et permet de placer un Louis d’or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une pièce de 10 francs or (20 mm). Le modèle est fait de métal ferreux et les emplacements des pièces en cuivre doré. L’intérieur laisse apparaître les reliefs de l’avers.
Les emplacements pour les pièces sont guillochés créant un motif discret de rosace.
Dimensions: 53 x 29 mm (excluding the bail). This oval-shaped coin holder opens to hold a Louis d'or (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm). The holder is made of ferrous metal, with the coin slots crafted from gilded copper. The interior reveals the obverse design. The coin slots are guilloché, creating a subtle rosette pattern.
Cet exemplaire, de forme d’ovale s’ouvre et permet de placer un Louis d’or (diamètre : 22,5 mm) et une pièce de 10 francs or (20 mm). Le modèle est fait de métal ferreux et les emplacements des pièces en cuivre doré. L’intérieur laisse apparaître les reliefs de l’avers.
Les emplacements pour les pièces sont guillochés créant un motif discret de rosace.
Dimensions: 53 x 29 mm (excluding the bail). This oval-shaped coin holder opens to hold a Louis d'or (22.5 mm diameter) and a 10-franc gold coin (20 mm). The holder is made of ferrous metal, with the coin slots crafted from gilded copper. The interior reveals the obverse design. The coin slots are guilloché, creating a subtle rosette pattern.
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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