fjt_653004 - PROVINCIAL BANKS Banque de Lyon 1835
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Type : Banque de Lyon
Date: (1845-1860)
Date: 1835
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,09 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : main ARGENT
Obverse
Obverse legend : BANQUE - DE LYON.
Obverse description : Armes de la ville couronnées sous un caducée et entre deux cornes d’abondance, à l’exergue signature BARRE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FONDÉE/ EN/ MDCCCXXXV .
Reverse description : Inscription en trois lignes dans une couronne de chêne : .
Commentary
Fondée en 1835, la Banque de Lyon devient une succursale de la Banque de France en 1848.
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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