v26_1226 - REVOLUTION COINAGE / CONFIANCE (MONNAIES DE…) Six sols de Joseph Turge, fondeur à Lyon n.d. Lyon
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 540.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 162.00 €
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 900.00 €
Realised price : 540.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 162.00 €
Type : Six sols de Joseph Turge, fondeur à Lyon
Date: (1793)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,54 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire présente des reliefs assez mous, ce qui est normal pour cette série qui a été coulée. D’infimes rayures dans le champs
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Schulman du 9 avril 1979, liste n° 215, n° 123
Obverse
Obverse description : J.T au dessus d’une rose contenu dans un cercle et une série de fleurons.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .SIX. SOLS. / ***.
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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