fjt_701811 - PROVINCIAL BANKS Jeton AR 36 poinçon main, Comptoir d’escompte de Lyon 1854
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Type : Jeton AR 36 poinçon main, Comptoir d’escompte de Lyon
Date: (1845-1860)
Date: 1854
Metal : silver
Diameter : 36,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,42 g.
Edge : lisse + abeille ARGENT
Puncheon : Abeille (1860 - 1880) ARGENT
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé. Présence de plusieurs coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : MINERVA FAV. - FIDE FIDUC. NASC..
Obverse description : Minerve assise à gauche, à ses pieds, corne d’abondance, ruche, etc. ; à l’exergue signature L. SCHMITT. FECIT.
Reverse
Reverse legend : COMPTOIR D’ESCOMPTE DE LYON.
Reverse description : Légende circulaire. Inscription en deux lignes dans une couronne fermée de chêne : 11 AVRIL/ 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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