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fwo_1065521 - ITALY - KINGDOM OF ITALY - NAPOLEON I 10 Centesimi 1811/0 Milan
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Type : 10 Centesimi
Date: 1811/0
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,93 g.
Edge : lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEONE IMPERATORE E RE.
Obverse description : Valeur et date dans le champ, sur trois lignes ; à l’exergue, lettre d’atelier M entre melagrana et coupe renversée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : GE AU REVERS.
Reverse description : N surmonté d’une couronne de fer radiée à sept pointes dans une couronne de laurier.
Historical background
ITALY - KINGDOM OF ITALY - NAPOLEON I
(1805-1814)
Napoleon I accepted the crown of Italy on March 17, 1805. After a triumphal entry into Milan on May 8, 1805, Joséphine and he were crowned on May 26 by Cardinal Caprara. As in Paris a few months earlier, Napoleon crowned himself by exclaiming: "God gave it to me, beware whoever touches it". This exclamation will become the motto of the Order of the Iron Crown (cf. TOKENS IV, pp.III-V). The Emperor appointed his son-in-law, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy and left Milan on June 10, 1805. He returned to Paris on August 1 to join the Boulogne camp. The fate of Italy is now linked to that of France for nine years. At the beginning of January 1814, the defection of Murat, and his alliance with the Austrians then with the English in order to keep his kingdom of Naples, caused Italy to lose. Prince Eugene, despite a heroic defense, cannot prevent the collapse of the kingdom after Mantua falls. On April 6, 1814, Napoleon abdicated..
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