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fmd_556234 - 5 francs Napoléon III, tête nue, contremarqué SEDAN 1856 Lyon F.330/9 var.

5 francs Napoléon III, tête nue, contremarqué SEDAN 1856 Lyon F.330/9 var. VF20
220.00 €(Approx. 237.60$ | 189.20£)
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Type : 5 francs Napoléon III, tête nue, contremarqué SEDAN
Date: 1856
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Quantity minted : 2248282
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,76 g.
Edge : en relief : ***** DIEU* PROTEGE* LA* FRANCE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé

Obverse


Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Napoléon III à gauche ; au-dessous BOUVET F et la lettre d'atelier D.

Reverse


Reverse legend : EMPIRE FRANÇAIS.
Reverse description : 5 F. de part et d'autre d'une aigle éployée sur un foudre entourée du collier de la Légion d'honneur brochant sur deux sceptres (main de justice et sceptre de Charlemagne) posés en sautoir, reposant sur une tenture ornée de mouchetures d'hermine à l'intérieur et d'abeilles à l'extérieur, sommée d'une couronne impériale de laquelle partent deux rubans, au-dessous 1856 encadré des différents.

Commentary


Les contremarques sont relativement rares sur les pièces de 5 francs.

Historical background


SATIRICAL COINS - 1870 WAR AND BATTLE OF SEDAN

During the war of 1870, the army of Châlons commanded by Mac-Mahon counted from August 15 the presence of Napoleon III and tried to come to the aid of Bazaine locked up in Metz with the army of the Rhine. On August 21, the army of Châlons leaves to join Mac-Mahon but this one is surrounded. Beaten several times, notably at Beaumont, the army was rejected and then surrounded at Sedan by the Prussian Generalissimo Moltke, despite the efforts of Commander Lambert who, wounded, fought with his porpoises until the last cartridge. On September 2, 1870, crushed by German artillery fire, Napoleon III and 83,000 soldiers of the French army surrendered to the King of Prussia. On September 3, Napoleon III and William I meet while Paris learns of the Emperor's defeat and captivity. Demonstrations burst out with cries of "forfeiture! forfeiture!". On September 4, Napoleon III is ousted while a government of national defense is set up.

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