Live auction - bry_1053724 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monnaie de confiance, Monneron du Serment du roi 1791 Paris
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 460 € |
| Maximum bid : | 482 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2025 18:47:14 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Monnaie de confiance, Monneron du Serment du roi
Date: 1791
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,13 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux : SE. VEND. A PARIS. CHEZ. MONNERON (PATENTE’)
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cette monnaie de confiance est frappée sur un flan large et régulier. Monnaie présentant de hauts reliefs et recouverte d’une jolie patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie n° 260 de la collection Jean-Claude Ungar, p. 168
Obverse
Obverse legend : JE JURE D'ETRE FIDELE A LA NATION ET A LA LOI..
Obverse description : Louis XVI prêtant serment sur la constitution, devant Minerve (ou la Liberté) ; entre les deux, l'Égalité ; à l'exergue 14 septembre 1791.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .MESSAGE DU ROI A L'ASS. NAT. CONSTTE. PRESIDT. JES. GME. THOURET, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).
Reverse description : LE VŒU / DU PEUPLE N'EST / PLUS DOUTEUX / POUR MOI : / J'ACCEPTE LA / CONSTITUTION. / - / 13 SEPTEMBRE / L'AN III DE LA / LIBERTÉ. / - en neuf lignes dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Message du roi à l'Assemblée Nationale Constituante, président Jacques Guillaume Thouret).
Historical background
REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…)
(1791-1793)
The Monneron Brothers made in England by Matthew Boulton, thanks to Watt's steam engine, coins of 2 and 5 sols in large quantities in the workshop of Soho in Birmingham, from the end of the year 1791. These emergency coins should have made up for the monetary shortage that reigned in France and their technical and aesthetic quality was far superior to the mediocre contemporary official productions in base metals. In March 1792, the Monnerons went bankrupt and Pierre fled. His brother Augustin took over the business, but a law of May 3, 1792 prohibited the manufacture of private coins. In September, a decree prohibits the marketing of trust coins. These coins of necessity circulated in fact until the end of 1793.
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