Token - Cunctis Dat Vivere ND

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Centre circle with a hand right, holding a watering can pouring water on a plant. Lettering outside circle, exergue blank, toothed border

Script: Latin

Lettering: CVNCTIS · DAT · VIVERE *

Translation: Cunctis dat vivere [He gives life to everything]

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This type corresponds, without highlighting the reverse, the F# 2393 which is in the series of the House to Deniers and dated 1687.

 CHAMBRE AUX DENIERS: House to money is "a sort of Accounting Chamber established for personal expenses or rather the king of the king's Hotel" (Charles Preau, Study Room with money king of the twelfth to the sixteenth century). It is also called "room for hotel deniers" and is regularly established of the reign of Saint Louis. Spending offices Paneterie, Echansonnerie, Kitchen, Greengrocer, Stable and Pound, are set by the House to the money that was delivering funds through the Treasury House.