| Location |
France
|
|---|---|
| King |
Louis XIV (1643-1715)
|
| Type | Utility items › Counter tokens |
| Year | 1711 |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 7.59 g |
| Diameter | 28.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 572541 |
| References | Feu# 3270 var. Félix-Bienaimé Feuardent. Jetons et méreaux depuis Louis IX jusqu'à la fin du Consulat de Bonaparte. Paris, France (5 volumes). Olivier Guéant, Michel Prieur; 2008. Bustes des rois et reines de France sur les jetons de l'Ancien Régime: Busts of the kings and queens of France on the tokens of the Ancien Régime. Les Chevau-Légers, Paris, France. |
Right bust of Louis XIV.
Script: Latin
Lettering: LUDOVICUS - MAGNUS REX
Engraver: Thomas Bernard
Prudence standing in front of an open safe, holding a mirror in her left hand and a snake coiled around her arm in the other.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ET SERVAT ET AUGET •
CONERS DU ROY AGENS
DE CHANGE •
1711
Unabridged legend: Conseillers du roi agents de change.
In Rome, artisan groups already existed, forming a college under the protection of a deity, with a common house and cash register. In medieval Europe, economic groupings of merchants known as hanse or ghilde developed from religious brotherhoods. With the development of trade, craftsmen organized themselves into trade guilds or communities, which grouped together all those who practiced the same profession: masters, journeymen or apprentices. To join the corps, you had to "swear" to the trade. In addition, there were free trades that could be practiced by anyone. Each corps was headed by a collegial director responsible for enforcing trade regulations, protecting the trade from competition and managing the mutual aid society. At the end of the 17th century, the King began to sell the functions of jurors and guild trustees as hereditary offices, which led to serious financial difficulties at a time when guilds were no longer able to meet the new economic demands of industrial development and business concentration. In fact, it was in England that guilds spontaneously disappeared as a result of the industrial revolution. Corporations were abolished in France in 1791 by the Constituent Assembly.
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