France 2 Sols 1791

KM# Tn23, N# 26418; Copper 18.25 g., 32 mm.; The "Monneron bank", actually known as "Monneron brothers traders", is a financial institution created by a family of French traders who obtained in 1791 the right to strike a copper coin which bore the inscription Monneron Brothers hence their designation of “monneron”. Inventors of the first French emergency currency, the Monneron brothers enjoyed great notoriety in their time but ended up ruined; XF