Live auction - fmd_861907 - Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, Satirique 1855 Rouen F.133/21 var.
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | 140 € |
| Maximum bid : | 140 € |
| End of the sale : | 22 July 2025 17:33:03 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, Satirique
Date: 1855
Mint name / Town : Rouen
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,98 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante de circulation sur les deux côtés. Au droit, l’effigie de Napoléon III a été regravée. L’empereur est coiffé d’un casque à pointe prussien. “70”, en référence à la défaite de 1870, est inscrit sur le cou. De part et d’autre de l’effigie, on peut lire les mots “Alsace” et “Lorraine” pour rappeler la perte de ces deux régions
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente MONNAIES XXV (Janvier 2006), lot n°1715
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III - EMPEREUR/ 1855.
Obverse description : Buste de Napoléon III à gauche coiffé d'un casque à pointe allemand regravé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPIRE FRANÇAIS/ * DIX CENTIMES *.
Reverse description : Aigle debout sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes, la tête tournée à droite ; au-dessous B.
Commentary
Très belle gravure et légendes gravées parfaitement lisibles.
Very beautiful engraving and perfectly legible engraved legends
Very beautiful engraving and perfectly legible engraved legends
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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