Live auction - fjt_1045644 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, tube pour 20 francs n.d.
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| Estimate : | 30 € |
| Price : | 35 € |
| Maximum bid : | 36 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 November 2025 17:10:48 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, tube pour 20 francs
Date: n.d.
Metal : various
Diameter : 36,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,12 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Cuir en plutôt bon état malgré quelques petites éraflures
Obverse
Obverse legend : 20 / - / 1000.
Obverse description : Nombre gaufré en lettres dorées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions : 36,5*24 mm - Diamètre extérieur : 24 mm
Cet exemplaire, en forme de tube, recouvert d’un cuir marron, peut contenir des 20 francs or pour la somme de 500 Francs.
Dimensions: 36.5*24 mm - Outer diameter: 24 mm. This tube-shaped example, covered in brown leather, can hold 20-franc gold coins for a total of 500 francs.
Cet exemplaire, en forme de tube, recouvert d’un cuir marron, peut contenir des 20 francs or pour la somme de 500 Francs.
Dimensions: 36.5*24 mm - Outer diameter: 24 mm. This tube-shaped example, covered in brown leather, can hold 20-franc gold coins for a total of 500 francs.
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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