Frank under the Revolution
The franc is the monetary unit under the French revolution.
Before the Revolution
The monetary unit under the Ancien Mode was delivers it, sometimes called “frankly”. This one was divided into under and into sums of money, twelve sums of money making a penny and twenty pennies making a book. The ecu of money was worth six books, the louis of gold twenty-four books.
Under the French revolution
It is with the currency that initially the metric system was instituted. By the decree of the 17 frimaire year II (December 7th 1793), the Convention divided delivers it in ten-per-cent taxes and centimes. The 18 germinal year III (April 7th 1795), it was issued that delivers it would name itself from now on “frankly”. The weight of the coins was defined on August 15th, 1795, the coin of a silver franc having to weigh five grams. The Directoire imposed the word <
The old coins and the coexistent news and equivalences posing of the problems, Napoleon Bonaparte rigorously defines the striking of the new currency which was to replace all the old ones by the law of the 7 germinal year XI (March 28th 1803). The coin of a franc was of five silver grams with ninety percent.
Was decided the striking of silver coins of five francs, two francs, a franc, fifty centimes and twenty-five centimes, gold coins of twenty and forty francs, also titrating gold 9/10e, on the basis of one gram of gold being worth 15,5 grams of money.
The France was equipped with a currency, the franc known as “germinal”, name of the date of the law, which was going to remain unchanged until the shortly after the First World War.
Under the Consulate and the First Empire
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