fmd_1081257 - Essai de 1 franc en argent, sans accent 1816 VG.2406
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Essai de 1 franc en argent, sans accent
Date: (1860)
Date: 1816
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R3
Slab
PCGS : SP62
Coments on the condition:
Sous coque PCGS SP62
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON II - EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Tête enfantine nue à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPIRE (LAURIER) FRANCAIS/ 1/ FRANC/ ESSAI/ 1816.
Reverse description : entre deux branches d'olivier.
Commentary
Ces monnaies sont apocryphes et ont été fabriquées sous le règne de Napoléon III, en Belgique peut-être afin de commémorer la mémoire du Roi de Rome, mort à 21 ans en terre étrangère.
These coins are apocryphal and were minted during the reign of Napoleon III, perhaps in Belgium, to commemorate the memory of the King of Rome, who died at the age of 21 on foreign soil.
These coins are apocryphal and were minted during the reign of Napoleon III, perhaps in Belgium, to commemorate the memory of the King of Rome, who died at the age of 21 on foreign soil.
Historical background
NAPOLEON II
(20/03/1811-22/07/1832)
Napoleon François-Joseph Charles Bonaparte was born on March 20, 1811. King of Rome at his birth, he left France for good on May 2, 1814 with his mother, Archduchess Marie-Louise, without having seen his father again. The child bears the first names of his paternal grandparents, François and Joseph for Austria and Charles, the first name of Napoleon's father. In 1818, the Aiglon received the title of Duke of Reichstadt, for whom his father had abdicated on June 22, 1815, proclaiming him Napoleon II, Emperor of the French. Entrusted to the custody of Metternich, the Emperor's son died in the costume of an Austrian colonel on July 22, 1832. He was immortalized in Edmond Rostand's drama (1900) where he was played by Sarah Bernhardt.
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