Bonaparte
mamieopa
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Here is a brass token dated 1796, 32 mm, 9.69 g, relating to the campain of Italy. Obverse: Bouonoparte General on Chief of the Brave Army of Italy. Reverse: Here Brave Soldiers the Fruit of your Undertakings.
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Nice. I have always been amazed of how little Napoleonic coinage is shared here.
America is not France and American coinage is not very collected here. The Bonaparte token is not commeon.
I understand @mamieopa , but a lot of folks here collect coins from countries they have never visited (and while I have been to France and have Napoleonic exonumia I do not consider myself a collector of the area). Given the historical relevance of Napoleon is only amazing to me. But that is a nice one. Thanks for sharing.
I fully agree. I love world coins, tokens and medals with an historical background, but I am the only one in my French Numismatic Club to do so. If you like I can put some more Bonaparte medals on discussion
That would be great @mamieopa One can always learn from the experts.
BTW @mamieopa are you aware of any coin or medal that depicts Lucien Bonaparte?
No, I don't know any. There is a Napoleon Bonaparte medal, dated 1800 mentioning his name on the reverse for laying the first stone of the National Column, Place Vendôme. He was Minister of the Interior.
@mamieopa thanks, I am aware of that one. I think he is the only brother without coinage minted on his behalf. Thank you.
An example of the Denon Medal for the second mariage of Bonaparte with Marie-Louise of Austria.
Silvered brass token by Stettner on the battle of Leipzig 1813. Obverse face Joseph I and Alexander I. Reverse show a crowned eagle in the sky of the town of Leipzig with a battle scene in foreground. Most of the silver has gone but the token remain nice (better in Hand than on the digital Macro pictures). Remember that Bonaparte lost this important battle.
Hieronymus, King of Westfalia, struck french centimes coins for a while, Francs too. I have been living in Kassel, capital of this country under French occupation. The people called him Jerome.
Nice!!!
I am impressed with your focus. @mamieopa I have only one Napoleon jetton. It been residing in my collection for decades. Anything you know about it is appreciated. 1804? Bronze, 18g, 31.8mm. Thanks. Peace Roy
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Originally, it's a counter token from Nürnberg for the coronation of Napoleon in December 1804. The mine is brass (as most of them), 25 mm for 4 g. Yours more likely is a later copper or bronze medal with beautiful reliefs and details. Never seen it before.
This is a tanned tin medal by Droz for the battle of Borodino in 1812 (54 mm and 65g), The reverse shows Hercules fighting two giants, in the sky an eagle with a thunderbolt. Not common at all.
Here comes another medal by Droz, edited later in 1819 during the Restoration under King Louis XVIII (Copper, 55 mm, 71.8 g). As Bonaparte was exiled to St. Helena, this medal is dedicated to the Armies of Bonaparte and their 20 principal battles between 1792 and 1815. As you may see on the reverse, Hercules is still fighting the giants, but the eagle in the sky has disappeared, as Bonaparte. Not common.
Another token of the Napoleonic Wars (and the Peace of Paris)
This one is by Johann Jacob Lauer, brass, 27 mm, 4.56g, not common. It shows Friedrich Wilhelm III, king of Prussia and, on the reverse, Victory holding a laurel wreath and an olive branche, The lettering is to memory the peace, 1814.
Thanks @mamieopa , keep them coming!
A modern strike (1969) Coronation Medal in Bronze, 68 mm, about 150 g, by GALLE. Laureate Head of Napoleon on obverse, the reverse showing seated Napoleon, dressed as a roman emperor in front of a Goddess representing the City of Paris.
Plot of the rue Saint-Niçaise or Machine Infernale Plot.
A very interesting and authentic bronze medal, 50 mm, 60 g, engraved be Henri Auguste in 1800. The obverse shows the portrait of a quite young Napoleon, First Consul of France, the reverse relates to a plot against Napoleon attempted by seven royalist Bretons Chouans on December, 24th of 1800.
These royalists bought a cart ,a horse and a wine barrel, they filled with gunpowder and bullets of all sizes. The powder should be lightened by a shortened gun, fixed to the barrel and remote controlled by a string. They placed the cart called Machine Infernale Rue Niçaise on the path the carriage should take to carry Napoleon and his wife from the Tuileries to the theatre to attend a performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung.
Because of panic of the man in charge with the lightening device, the barrel exploded to late to hit the carriage of Napoleon, but a number of bystanders died, as well as a young girl hired by the plotters to hold the horse.
A big number of people , involved or not in the plot were punished to death or to exile. One of the plotters, Joseph Picot de Limolëan, desolate about the death of the young girl, exiled to the United States and became Priest in the Georgetown Visitation Monastery.
Vent nice @mamieopa
Cast Iron copy, 32 mm, 16.47 g by Brenet, An 4 (1803)
In 1803, Napoleon decided to invade Britain, built a new fleet of warships and assembled 100000 soldiers at the camp of Boulogne. Note that Napoleon never invaded Britain.
Another great medal!
That's where the money from the sale of Louisiana to the United States went.
He knew France would lose the territory anyway, and had a use for the cash.
First distribution of the LEGION D'HONNEUR by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Boulogne Camp on August 16, 1804. Authentic Medal, Bronze, 41 mm, 34.07 g, by Jaley.
Engraved by Duvivier, this medal concerns the Treaty of Campo Formio signed on October 18th, 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte for the French Republic and the Count Philipp von Cobenzl for the Austrian Monarchy. The reverse shows Bonaparte riding a horse next to the figures of Prudence and Value, followed in the sky by Victory. Restrike, bronze, 58 mm, 81.56 g.
Really like these...