Live auction - fmd_1043956 - Monnaie satirique, 5 francs Napoléon III tête laurée, regravée 1870 Strasbourg F.331/17 var.
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 360 € |
| Maximum bid : | 360 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2025 19:40:58 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Monnaie satirique, 5 francs Napoléon III tête laurée, regravée
Date: 1870
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,66 g.
Edge : inscrite en relief ***** DIEU* PROTEGE* LA* FRANCE
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III - EMPEREUR / BB.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Napoléon III à gauche, coiffé d'un casque à pointe allemand regravé, avec col regravé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EMPIRE - FRANÇAIS // 5 - F.// (MM) 1870 (ANCRE).
Reverse description : Écu orné d'un aigle posé sur un foudre entouré du collier de la Légion d'Honneur posé sur un manteau couronné, brochant un sceptre et une main de justice.
Commentary
Habile regravure.
Skillful re-engraving
Skillful re-engraving
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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