3.6 Francs - Aux Trois François
Features
| Location |
Belgium
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Advertising medallions |
| Years | 1889-1891 |
| Currency | Franc (1832-2001) |
| Composition | Brass |
| Weight | 2.4 g |
| Diameter | 21.3 mm |
| Thickness | 1 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 53842 |
Obverse
Quand au chapeau dit « Trois-François », il doit son nom à un chapelier de Liège, Desfrançois, qui lança le chapeau à trois francs so (xante). Si le calembour avait fait fortune, le chapelier également ! (sources : André Balériaux. Août 14 : de Sarajevo à Charleroi)....
Script: Latin
Lettering:
AUX TROIS FRANÇOIS
✿ RUE NEUVE 56 BRUXELLES ✿
Reverse
The value in the center and the legend in 1 line around it, a flower at 6 o'clock.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
LA PLUS GRANDE CHAPELLERIE DE LA BELGIQUE ✿
3F60
Edge
Plain
Comments
Infantry uniforms, which could not match those of the special corps, let alone those of the army, were also the target of mockery, particularly the cock-feathered bowler hat, the "Trois-François", so named after a Brussels hatmaker. "Even today, the puns about the rooster-feathered Trois-François, the traditional jibes about the alignment obtained along the curb and the unquenchable thirst of our armed bourgeois, are repeated with a smile on our lips!"
As for the so-called "Trois-François" hat, it owes its name to a Liège hatmaker, Desfrançois, who launched the hat at three francs soi(xante). If the pun had made his fortune, so had the hatmaker! (source: André Balériaux, August 14: from Sarajevo to Charleroi)...
Extracts from https://atmikes.be/index.php/diensten/27-jetons/64-reclamepenning-aux-trois-francois-20ste-eeuw
(Editor's note: this reference to a store in Liège is intriguing, given the information on the token. Was there a Liège branch? Below, another article about the Brussels "Trois-François").
The Trois-François was the name of a fashionable hat that was all the rage in Brussels at the end of the 19th century. It had been launched by a certain Victor Mehay, a Frenchman from Compiègne, who had set up his hat shop on Rue Neuve, under the sign "Trois-François", because his headgear was sold for three francs sixty. Prestidigitator, playwright, chemist, geographer and traveler, V. Mehay left Brussels after dividing his fortune between his wife and children, and set off on an "adventure" to Africa...
See more on https://www.pave-marolles.be/allez-mets-ton-trois-francois-michiels-on-va-voir-ta-femme-qui-chante-au-cabaret/
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (1889-1891) | |||||||||||||||
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