Live auction - fjt_777706 - LOUIS PURSES, WALLETS Porte-louis n.d.
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| Estimate : | 160 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 25 June 2024 16:20:22 |
Type : Porte-louis
Date: n.d.
Metal : gilt metal
Diameter : 71,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,10 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire avec quelques marques d’usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Flan bosselé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Flan bosselé.
Commentary
Dimensions : 71,5*31 mm (en comptant l’anneau)
Cet exemplaire, de forme ovale, s’ouvre et permet de placer des monnaies de diamètre : 22,5 et 19,5 mm. La mention PATENT ANGM est lisible entre les deux emplacements guillochés.
Cet exemplaire, de forme ovale, s’ouvre et permet de placer des monnaies de diamètre : 22,5 et 19,5 mm. La mention PATENT ANGM est lisible entre les deux emplacements guillochés.
Historical background
LOUIS PURSES, WALLETS
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From the Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century, deniers, écus, and then the first francs and centimes, were carried in purses, alms pouches, or small leather change purses, often attached to the belt. When, in the second half of the 19th century, the Second Empire put into circulation more than one hundred million 20-franc gold coins minted with the image of Louis Napoleon III, it was necessary to create a safe and practical system for storing and individually transporting these precious coins. The craftsmen imagined the manufacture of a sort of coin box, which took the name of coin box, then gold holder, and quickly transformed into Louis holder, the first name of the Emperor, but also a reminder of the first gold Louis created at the end of the reign of Louis XIII in 1641.
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