bry_834639 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai de Galle à l'effigie de Mirabeau 1792 Lyon
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Type : Essai de Galle à l'effigie de Mirabeau
Date: (1792)
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,79 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière sur les reliefs. Patine hétérogène. Présence d’une rayure dans les champs devant le portrait
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HONORE RIQUETTI / MIRABEAU..
Obverse description : Tête laurée à gauche de Mirabeau.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PUR / MÉTAL DE / CLOCHE FRAPPÉ / PAR LES ARTISTES / RÉUNIS DE LYON. / LE XXIV. 7.BRE / L’AN IV DE LA / LIBERTE / IER. DE LEGALITE.
Reverse description : en neuf lignes dans le champ.
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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