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fjt_539251 - PROVINCIAL BANKS Comptoir d’escompte d’Orléans 1854

PROVINCIAL BANKS Comptoir d’escompte d’Orléans AU
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Price : 45.00 €
Type : Comptoir d’escompte d’Orléans
Date: (1860-1879)
Date: 1854
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,31 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : abeille ARGENT

Obverse


Obverse legend : SOCIÉTÉ RICHAULT ET COMPIE.
Obverse description : Ruche au-devant d’un coffre ouvert, fleuron à l’exergue.

Reverse


Reverse legend : COMPTOIR D’ESCOMPTE D’ORLÉANS.
Reverse description : Ancre-caducée dans une couronne formée d’un sarment de vigne et de gerbes de blé, à l’exergue : 1854.

Historical background


PROVINCIAL BANKS

The development of the activity, born of the Industrial Revolution, caused the creation of banks of a new type, for all, called deposit banks. Banks were thus created in Bordeaux, Le Havre, Lille, Lyon, Marseilles, Nantes, Orleans, Rouen, Toulouse. In 1848, they were absorbed by the Banque de France which also created 47 branches in Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Saint-Quentin, Reims, Avignon, Besançon, Angoulême, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Châteauroux, Caen, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Le Le Mans, Valenciennes, Rennes, Nîmes, Metz, Angers, Nevers, etc..

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