Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Essai de laminage du système Martin Maillechort/Cuivre 32 mm
| Issuer | France |
|---|---|
| Year | 1888 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | SYSTÈME ED. MARTIN BREVETÉ S.G.D.G. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Martin system referenced in this piece's name was a proprietary rolling and plating process proposed in the 1880s as a potential solution to France's ongoing search for a practical, fraud-resistant coinage alloy. Maillechort — a French-developed nickel silver alloy known elsewhere as German silver — had been in commercial production since the 1820s, but bonding it reliably to a copper core for coinage presented persistent adhesion and durability problems. This essai exists precisely because the question was not yet settled.
France ultimately did not adopt the Martin lamination process for circulating coinage.