CURRENCY. BELL METAL. “Law Concerning the Manufacture of Cop - Lot 222

CURRENCY. BELL METAL. “Law Concerning the Manufacture of Copper Coinage.” Enacted in Paris on January 29, 1792: “1°) The blanks (metal discs) made from bell metal, produced in the cities of BESANÇON (Doubs), CLERMONT-FERRAND (Puy-de-Dôme), ARRAS (Pas-de-Calais), DIJON (Côte-d’Or), and SAUMUR (Maine-et-Loire), shall be stamped with the new dies on site, without being moved. A machine designed to strike the blanks (flan, metal disc) will be installed in each of the facilities established in the aforementioned cities, in accordance with the process adopted by Paris… ” From the Printing House of J. Guichard, printer for the Department of the Basses-Alpes, in DIGNE, 1792. Poster (47 x 33 cm) Condition A

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