fmd_280220 - Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, satirique 1870 Strasbourg F.133/- var.
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Price : 95.00 €
Type : Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, satirique
Date: 1870
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,92 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière. Très bel exemplaire de couleur métallique
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III - EMPEREUR/ 1854.
Obverse description : Buste de Napoléon III à gauche, coiffé d'un bonnet (de prisonnier ?), bouche et moustache formées d’un trait, cinq point sur l’oreille, col 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 BB.
Commentary
Regravure sur un exemplaire avec le différent ancre (donc de 1855, 1856 ou 1857). Au droit, SEDAN est écrit sur le cou au-dessus de 1870.
Re-engraving on a example with the different anchor (therefore from 1855, 1856 or 1857). On the obverse, SEDAN is written on the neck above 1870
Re-engraving on a example with the different anchor (therefore from 1855, 1856 or 1857). On the obverse, SEDAN is written on the neck above 1870
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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