fjt_955689 - LOUIS PURSES, WALLETS Porte-louis fer noirci n.d.
90.00 €(Approx. 101.70$ | 77.40£)
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Type : Porte-louis fer noirci
Date: n.d.
Metal : iron
Diameter : 68 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 36,53 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Aspect noirci, pointes d’oxydation sur les couvercles des boîtes. Traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : LISSE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
Dimensions : 53,5*29 mm
Cet exemplaire, ovale, s’ouvre et permet de placer des 10 et 20 francs or. L’intérieur est argenté et l’emplacement des monnaies est doré.
Cet exemplaire, ovale, s’ouvre et permet de placer des 10 et 20 francs or. L’intérieur est argenté et l’emplacement des monnaies est doré.
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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