Monneron Freres 1792 2 sols KM-Tn26
This specimen was lot 71125 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANCE. Constitution. Copper 2 Sols Essai (Pattern), Year IV/1792. Birmingham (Soho) Mint. PCGS MS-63 Brown. By Matthew Boulton & Noel-Alexander Ponthon for the Monneron Brothers. Extremely rich and glossy, this specimen provides immense lustrous brilliance across both sides. From the Richard Margolis Collection (acquired from Émile Bourgey in 1957)." This specimen is a bronze two sols token issued for the merchants Monneron Freres in Paris, France, in 1792, the year of the Terror. These and the accompanying one and five sou tokens were made at the Soho Mint in Birmingham, England, whose steam presses were the only ones capable of striking such large copper coins. It is also believed that the Soho mint restruck these long after the Revolution was over for sale as souvenirs. This pattern lacks the brackets normally found around the word PATENTÉ.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen: 32 mm diameter; 16.56 g.
Catalog reference: KM-Tn26; Maz-160.
- Duplessy, Jean, Les Monnaies Françaises Royales de Hugues Capet à Louis XVI (987-1793), Tome II, 2e édition, Paris: Maison Platt, 1999.
- Gadoury, Victor, Monnaies Françaises, 1789-2019, 24me éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 2019.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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