fmd_714655 - Essai de 2 francs en argent, sans les deux étoiles 1816 VG.2404 var.
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Type : Essai de 2 francs en argent, sans les deux étoiles
Date: 1816
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,16 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R3
Slab
PCGS : SP63
Coments on the condition:
Sous coque PCGS SP63
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON II - EMPEREUR.
Obverse description : Tête enfantine nue à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPIRE (LAURIER) FRANCAIS/ 2/ FRANCS/ ESSAI/ 1816.
Reverse description : entre deux branches d'olivier.
Commentary
Très rare essai : variété sans le point au-dessus du E de “ESSAI”, et sans les deux étoiles entourant le millésime ; tranche cannelée.
Very rare test: variety without the dot above the E of “ESSAI”, and without the two stars surrounding the vintage; fluted edge
Very rare test: variety without the dot above the E of “ESSAI”, and without the two stars surrounding the vintage; fluted edge
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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