bry_537520 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Monneron de 5 sols à l'Hercule 1792
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Type : Monneron de 5 sols à l'Hercule
Date: 1792
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 27,13 g.
Edge : en creux * LA. CONFIANCE. AUGMENTE. LA VALEUR.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et décentrée. Présence de coups et petites rayures. Tache verte sur la peau de lion à l’avers
Obverse
Obverse legend : LES FRANÇAIS UNIS SONT INVINCIBLES / L'AN IV DE LA LIBERTE.
Obverse description : Hercule faisant d'inutiles efforts pour rompre un faisceau.
Reverse
Reverse legend : REVOLUTION FRANCAISE. / 1792 // MEDAILLE QUI SE VEND CINQ-SOLS A PARIS CHEZ MONNERON PATENTE.
Reverse description : légende circulaire ; en six lignes.
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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