fjt_278265 - SATIRICAL COINS - 1870 WAR AND BATTLE OF SEDAN Monnaie satirique, module de 10 centimes 1870
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Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Monnaie satirique, module de 10 centimes
Date: 1870
Metal : red copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,60 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire superbe avec les bords légèrement coupants. Il reste beaucoup du rouge d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : * NAPOLEON III LE - MISERABLE* / 2 DECEMBRE.
Obverse description : Buste de Napoléon III à gauche coiffé d'un casque à pointe allemand.
Reverse
Reverse legend : * VAMPIRE DE LA FRANCE */ SEDAN 2 SEPTBRE 1870.
Reverse description : Aigle napoléonien à tête de chouette sur un foudre.
Commentary
Suite à la défaite de Napoléon III à Sedan, de nombreuses pièces et médailles satiriques ont été émises pour ridiculiser l'empereur français. Jugé responsable des 80.000 prisonniers, Napoléon III est fréquemment affublé d’un casque à pointe et associé à des ossements tandis que l’aigle impérial est devenu un hibou.
Following Napoleon III's defeat at Sedan, numerous satirical coins and medals were issued to ridicule the French emperor. Blamed for the 80,000 prisoners, Napoleon III was frequently adorned with a spiked helmet and associated with bones, while the imperial eagle became an owl.
Following Napoleon III's defeat at Sedan, numerous satirical coins and medals were issued to ridicule the French emperor. Blamed for the 80,000 prisoners, Napoleon III was frequently adorned with a spiked helmet and associated with bones, while the imperial eagle became an owl.
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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