LOUIS XVI (1774-1793).
Lot of three constitutional coins: 30 sols,
1792 Paris and two 15 sols 1791 Paris and Limoges.
G. 39 and 36.
All 3, VG and TTB...
LOUIS XVI (1774-1793).
Lot of five 12 deniers "François": 3 for 1792
(Lyon, Paris and appearing without workshop letter)
and 2 for 1793 (Paris year 3 and Lyon year 5). G. 15.
All 5, TTB...
LOUIS XVI (1774-1793).
Essay by Galle signed, in gilt bronze, with the bust
of Mirabeau "The French Demosthenes". This
essay, dated 1791, is the first in the series
of essays by Lyon artists. VG. 203.
Rare and VG....
MONNERONS.
Lot of 5 monnerons: two of 2 sols 1791, one 5
sols au serment 1792, one 2 sols à la Liberté
1792 and a 5 sols monneron to the Hercules 1792.
VG. 231, 291, 301 and 295.
(see also lot 90)
All 5, VG and TTB...
DIRECTOIRE (1795-1799).
Lot of six Dupré 5 centime coins:
year 5 A and R, year 7 A, year 8 A (2 ex.) and AA. G. 126
and 126a.
All 6, Mint (except year 8 AA in Mint)...
MISCELLANEOUS.
Lot of thirteen coins mainly in bronze
from Louis XVI to 1808, including three 2 sous coins
for Cayenne (1789), two 2 sols coins from the siege of
siege of Mainz, one of which is superb, 20 sols
1792 Manufacture de Potter, rue de Crussol
and the Salneuve trial (1808) in the 2-franc module
francs, with inscribed edge, for the King of Holland
(VG. 1561)....
Assignats from 1791 to 1795 referenced as follows:
Lot of 3 assignats: 50 livres Laf. 129, 70 livres
Laf. 131 and 100 livres Laf. 140.
All 3, VF to TTB...
Assignats plates.
Lot of 18 plates: 3 complete plates
(20 assignats) of the 10 sous of October 1792 (Lf.
159), 3 complete plates (20 assignats), of the
15 sols of May 1793 (Laf. 166) and 2 others of the
15 sols of January 1792 (Laf. 74), 5 full plates
(20 assignats) of the 50 sols of May
1793 (Laf. 167), 2 complete plates (20
assignats) of the 50 sols of May 1793 (Laf.167),
2 complete plates (10 assignats) of the 5
livres du 10 brumaire an 2 (Laf.171), a rare
complete plate (10 assignats) of the 25 livres
of June 1793 (Laf. 168), a complete plate
(4 assignats) of the 125 livres of 7 vendémiaire...
Rescription.
Rescription on the forced loan of year IV,
voucher for 25 francs dated 10 germinal an IV. Rare
bill of exchange from the Trésorerie Nationale
manufactured for a very short time, Laf. 190.
TTB
We enclose 5 bonds of the forced loan of year 4
(5, 10, 3 and two of 50 francs).
Together...
Promises of territorial mandate.
Reunion of approximately 6 promises with series:
25 of 25 f., 26 of 100 f., 2 of 250 f., 9 of 500 f.
including one new one and a block of three curiously
printed on the reverse with six satirical
satirical vignettes: "Germania" and "Le Magnat
Boche".
We enclose 12 full plates (5 promises)
of 25 f. and one of 100 f., all practically
superb.
All 127 promises...
Promesse de mandat vérificateur.
Promise of 100 francs without series (Law of 28
Ventôse an 4) with on reverse "Promesse de
Mandat vérificateur" and 3.S.M. (Grouvelle,
Deperey, Frecine) Laf 197a.
Rare (625 copies) and TTB
(has been laid flat)...
Auxiliary currencies,
Territorial Money Orders.
Lot of 4 "Monval" 5-franc mandates, including
2 with black cachet (Laf. 208) and 2 with red cachet
(Laf. 209), one with large margins.
All 4,...
Auxiliary currency,
Consulate bearer bond.
Coupure de 25 francs pour le département du
Gers, n° 286, dated 26 prairial an VIII with
autograph verification by the secrétaire Gal.
préfecture de la Gironde made in Bordeaux on
23 ventôse an 10, Laf. 221.
Rare and superb document
identical to the one
reproduced by Lafaurie...
Auxiliary coinage, Siege of Mainz.
Lot of 2 siege coins: 5 sols and 10 sols
with red cachet (the last of series A), Laf.
240 and 247
The 2, Almost superb and TTB...
Auxiliary mint, Lyon headquarters.
Lot of a twenty pound bill with cut corner,
dated 1793 year 2. (Laf. 252) and one for 5 livres
livres (Laf. 253).
The 2, Superb and TTB...
Direction Générale de la Fabrication
des Assignats.
Certificat d'emploi du Citoyen Couzé, employé
as a signatory for the hand-numbering
of assignats with the Direction's red stamp
and Delamarche's autograph signature. This
document is accompanied by his letter of
of December 29, 1792, to the 1st of the Republic
also signed by Directeur Général Delamarche.
General Delamarche....
Literature.
Batch of 12 brochures (13x21 cm) on
assignats: "Observations sur quelques articles
du projet de décret ..concernant les assignats".
4 p. April 17, 1790, "Address to the representatives
de la Nation .." 7 p. s. d., "Procès Verbaux
concernant les signes caractéristiques" 16
p. (the first is missing), "Adresse de
la ville de Lyon concernant les assignats".
A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1790, uncut
cut, "Adresse de l'Assemblée Nationale
aux François sur l'émission des AssignatsMonnoie", 1790, etc.
Enclosed is a red wax seal from the Vérificateur
des Assignats used to issue 80
assignats...
Engraving.
Vintage engraving (approx. 55 x 48 cm) with a
beggar surrounded by assignats in trompe l'oeil
l'œil, partially enhanced in watercolor and
presented in a coaster....
PARIS :
25 Compagnie de Commission parchment
de Commission (various values, some
rare). 15, 20, 30 and 40 sols from the Maison de
Secours, rue des filles St Thomas....
Books on patriotic banknotes.
Reunion of 7 books, some rare:
- Paul BORDEAUX "Les Assignats et les
monnaies du Siège de Mayence en 1793",
Brussels, 1899.
- Raymond HABEKORN "Billets de confiance
Alsaciens et Lorrains", Auxerre, 1961.
- Georges CRESTE "Les Papiers Monnaie
émis à Mortagne pendant la Révolution" and
J. BERANGER "Billets de Confiance de la
Société Patriotique de Rouen (1791-1793)".
Les 2, in Gazette Numismatique 16th year, 1914
(uncropped).
- Jacqueline PILET-LEMIERE "Les billets
communaux de la France Révolutionnaire" (Communal banknotes in Revolutionary France)
Musée de Normandie,...
Exchange of trust bills
between communes.
Letter "to the citizens, mayor and municipal offi.
of Béziers, in Béziers": printed letter dated January 31
to the Second of the Republic signed by the
Citoyens, Maire et Officiers municipaux de
Privas (4 S.M.) requesting the reimbursement
of the "billets de confiance" issued by Béziers
issued by Béziers and circulating in Privas.
mark and stamp fragments).
Very rare...
Confidence and patriotic bills.
Reunion of 5 decrees of the Convention Nationale
Nationale of 1792 and 1793 relating to "billets de confiance
"de confiance, patriotiques et de secours" (confidence, patriotic and relief notes)
as well as parchment or "maison de Secours" bills.
maison de Secours.
All 5 decrees,...
Forgery and depreciation
of Assignats.
File including:
- Jean BOUCHARY's book "Les Faux
Monnayeurs sous la Révolution Française" ("Counterfeiters during the French Revolution")
(Paris, 1946), and the following 7 documents
following documents
- a circular from the Minister of the Interior signed by
Garat, dated March 10, 1793, concerning the P.V.
characteristics of counterfeit assignats,
- a table showing the depreciation of paper
paper money in the Seine dept. from 1/1/1791
an 1er thermidor an IV,
- the prospectus for a ten-year half-tontine
"SociétéCivique pour le retirement des
Assignats",
-...
Assignats de soie de Jolivet.
Alain Weil's personal file on these
these extremely rare Lyon assignats (only six known)
the following 7 documents
signed typescript of the article published in the
Revue Numismatique 2005 / deluxe copy
numbered 123/200 from the catalog of
sale of the François Delamare collection
(Drouot, 20/6/2000) / photocopied documentation
photocopies: SFN approval for publication
publication of the article / "Projet d'Assignat
sur Tissu de Soie" by H. Denise (Gazette
Numismatique Tome II, 1898, pp. 383-399)
/ photos of three silk assignats / Two
reports from the archives of the...
Books on Assignats.
Reunion of 4 books:
- Jean LAFAURIE. "Les Assignats et les
Papiers-Monnaies émis par l'Etat au XVIIIe
siècle" (mint condition except for the
condition).
- Jean MORINI - COMBY. "Les Assignats.
Paris, 1924.
- Augustin ROUILLE. "Assignats et PapiersMonnaies" Reprint 1978.
- Alain MERCIER. "L'Argent des
Révolutionnaires" CNAM, 1989, with signed
signed by the author.
Les 4,...
LAWS ON ASSIGNATS.
Exceptional collection of approximately 153
documents in 4 binders: 6 laws of 1790 and
47 from 1781, 37 laws and 12 decrees from 1792, 38 decrees
decrees from 1793 and 13 documents from 1794 to
1796.
The whole set,...
CAISSE de L'EXTRAORDINAIRE.
Important file of 10 documents on the
Caisse de l'Extraordinaire, namely:
- Projet de décret sur la "Caisse de l'Extraordinaire" (10 p. from Imprimerie Nationale,
s.d.).
- Two draft decrees on the order of the
issuing mandates to the administration
of the Caisse de l'Extraordinaire (10 and 8 pp.
Imprimerie Nationale, n.d.).
- Memorandum addressed to Ass. Nat. by employees
to the Treasury of the Caisse de l'Extraordinaire
(4 p. 1791).
- Observations on the report made by M. Le
Camus on behalf of the Commissioners of the Caisse de l'Extraordinaire
de l'Extraordinaire.....(16...
MONNAYING of CLOCHE METAL.
(see also lot 234.01)
Rare and important dossier on bell casting
for the monetary use of their bronze
under the French Revolution.
1/ "Aperçu présenté au comité des Monnoies
de l'Assemblée Nationale des avantages qui
may result from the conversion of bell metal
metal into molded money to facilitate the exchange
the exchange of small assignats" by M. l'Abbé
Rochon (24 p. uncropped, uncut fascicle
brown stains on paper).
2/ Law concerning the manufacture of monnoie
from bell metal (6 p. dated
April 22, 1792).
3/ "Instruction sur l'art de séparer le cuivre du
metal published...
BILLS PAYABLE TO BEARER.
Reunion of 6 bills:
Caisse d'Échange de Caen: unissued bill
(with stub) of four hundred sols dated 1st
thermidor an 9 (qq. brown stains).
G. Hermel et Cie à Rouen: unissued note (with stub) of
stub) of 20 francs dated 1 frimaire year 12.
Trace of folding, otherwise superb.
Caisse de commerce, rue de Bussy, Paris:
2 billets de commerce of 25 livres (one dated
20.2.1797, superb, with 2 endos and the other TB
with 4 backings).
Caisse d'Echange d'Orléans: 2 bills of 25 francs
francs of year 10 with 2 s.m. (almost superb
and almost new).
All 6,...
CAISSE d'ESCOMPTE.
Set of 5 brochures on the Caisse d'Escompte
d'Escompte (approx. 21 x 14 cm) from May,
September, November (1789) and 2 s.d.
to which is attached the 30 p. article (uncropped) by
by Commandant Babut on "les caisses
d'escompte de l'ancien régime 1767-1768 et
1776-1793" in Gazette Numismatique year
1909, 1° and 2° issues, as well as the rare half
action du 07.01.1790 avec cachet sec et 3
s.m....
NATIONAL BANK.
Rare file on this bank project
including 5 brochures from 1789 (approx. 21 x
13 cm) including: "Projet d'établissement d'une
Caisse Nationale" (24 p. uncut).
"Sur l'impossibilité de continuer les
loans and the need to create a national bank
by the Comte de Custine (12 p.
uncut), "Discours prononcé par M. Le
comte de Mirabeau sur le projet de la banque
nationale" (50 p. uncut)....
MISCELLANEOUS.
Frame (67 x 55 cm) containing the following 5 documents
documents:
- Copy of excerpt from ledger entry of
of the consolidated five percent public debt
dated 5 fructidor an II.
-Patente simple for 1792.
-Income tax receipt for 1792.
-Receipt for the Montpellier revolutionary
Montpellier (August 3, 1793).
-Force armée Parisienne: curious summons
from 1792 to stand guard at the headquarters
des quatre nations with, on verso,
handwritten inscription "Je certifie que
the citizen (Maganthis?) is in no condition to work
to work in the camp, given that he is
that his broken leg has not healed...
CLOCK METAL MONEYING.
Reunion of 7 printed laws of April 22, June 6
6 june, 6 july (2 various ex.), 6 august (2 ex.: law
on manufacture and law on distribution
with table of distribution proportions
by department). Note the law of June 6
abolishing the half-year mark requirement
with the astonishing typographical error:
"The National Assembly, considering that the law
of September 8, 1891, relating to the organization".
The 7,...
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