fjt_1099833 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, Violette n.d.
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Type : Porte-louis, Violette
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 51 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,76 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
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Traces d’oxydation et de rayures. Petite usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation d’une violette .
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Représentation d’une violette .
Commentary
Dimensions : 43*32 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 partiellement doré présente une violette en négatif, l’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché et forme un motif discret de rosace. On note divers marques, soit deux fois l’inscription “XIIII - III” à l’intérieur sur les rebords.
Dimensions: 43 x 32 mm (including the bail and excluding the ring). This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The partially gilded interior features a violet in negative; the coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. Various markings are present, including the inscription “XIIII - III” twice inside on the rim.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ronde, s’ouvre et permet de placer une 20 francs or (diamètre : 22,5 mm),
L’intérieur partiellement doré présente une violette en négatif, l’emplacement pour la pièce est guilloché et forme un motif discret de rosace. On note divers marques, soit deux fois l’inscription “XIIII - III” à l’intérieur sur les rebords.
Dimensions: 43 x 32 mm (including the bail and excluding the ring). This round example opens to hold a 20-franc gold coin (diameter: 22.5 mm). The partially gilded interior features a violet in negative; the coin slot is guilloché, forming a subtle rosette pattern. Various markings are present, including the inscription “XIIII - III” twice inside on the rim.
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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