v25_1313 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron à l'effigie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau n.d.
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Type : Monneron à l'effigie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Date: (1791)
Date: n.d.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,19 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire est frappé sur un flan régulier et large. Une jolie patine de médaillier recouvre les deux faces de cet exemplaire. De petites taches au droit et au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : J. JACQUES ROUSSEAU NE A GENEVE EN 1712.
Obverse description : Buste habillé à gauche de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; au-dessous DUMAREST. F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : .CONTRAT SOCIAL . LIV. 3. CHAP. 1..
Reverse description : en cinq lignes dans le champ : LA PUISSANCE / LEGISLATIVE / APPARTIENT AU PEUPLE / ET NE PEUT APPARTENIR / QU'A LUI..
Commentary
Variété avec tranche lisse signalée dans le Hennin.
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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