v20_0708 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Essai
MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Essai
Date: 1792
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,67 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cet essai est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Léger décentrage au droit comme au revers. Exemplaire frappé avec un coin de revers présentant une cassure au-dessus du mot LIBERTÉ
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUB-LIQUE.
Obverse description : Faisceau de licteur sommé d’un bonnet de la liberté.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTÉ / ET / ÉGALITÉ / - / 1792.
Reverse description : en cinq 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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