fmd_504973 - FAUSSE Satirique sur Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, différent ancre 1855 Strasbourg F.133/24 var.
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Price : 35.00 €
Type : FAUSSE Satirique sur Dix centimes Napoléon III, tête nue, différent ancre
Date: 1855
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,35 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR// (ANCRE) 1855 (MM).
Obverse description : Tête nue de Napoléon III à gauche coiffé d’un shako regravé ; signé BARRE au-dessous ; col en vague regravé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPIRE FRANÇAIS// *DIX CENTIMES*.
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur un foudre, les ailes ouvertes, la tête tournée à droite ; au-dessous, BB.
Commentary
Exemplaire à gravure fruste et profonde à l’effigie du Général Boulanger, représenté fumant une cigarette : ce dernier détail démasque le caractère faux de cette satirique, le Général Boulanger étant apprécié à l’époque des regravures.
example with a crude and deep engraving of the effigy of General Boulanger, depicted smoking a cigarette: this last detail unmasks the false nature of this satirical work, General Boulanger being appreciated at the time of the re-engravings
example with a crude and deep engraving of the effigy of General Boulanger, depicted smoking a cigarette: this last detail unmasks the false nature of this satirical work, General Boulanger being appreciated at the time of the re-engravings
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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