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Live auction - bry_458479 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron de 5 sols à l'Hercule, frappe médaille 1792 Birmingham, Soho

REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron de 5 sols à l Hercule, frappe médaille 1792 Birmingham, Soho MS
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Estimate : 700 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 12 December 2017 16:24:56
Type : Monneron de 5 sols à l'Hercule, frappe médaille
Date: 1792 
Mint name / Town : Birmingham, Soho
Metal : copper
Diameter : 39,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,15 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux : °°°°° LA. CONFIANCE. AUGMENTE. LA. VALEUR.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce de 5 sols est frappée sur un flan régulier et large laissant apparaître l’essentiel des grènetis extérieurs. Exemplaire recouvert d’une très jolie patine marron et présentant de hauts reliefs
Catalogue references :
VG.295  - Maz.163  - Br.226b  - Dr/Mer.59a
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de MONNAIES 44, n° 416 et de la collection du Docteur Frédéric Nordmann

Obverse

Obverse legend : LES FRANÇAIS UNIS SONT INVINCIBLES.
Obverse description : Hercule essayant de briser un faisceau de licteur ; à l'exergue L'AN IV DE LA / LIBERTE’..

Reverse

Reverse legend : REVOLUTION FRANÇAISE. - 1792.
Reverse description : MEDAILLE / QUI SE VEND / CINQ-SOLS / A PARIS CHEZ / MONNERON / (PATENTÉ), en six lignes dans le champ.

Commentary

Exemplaire en frappe médaille (12 heures).

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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