Details
LOT 3549
Napoleon AE Commemorative Medal. 1804.
Laureate head facing left; around, NEAPOLIO IMPERATOR; below neck, GALLE FECIT / the emperor in ancient Roman armour seated on an elevated platform facing right; in his left hand the staff of royalty surmounted by the eagle of France; on right, the city of Pari wearing turreted crown facing Napoleon, arms extended; behind her, on the right, an antique ship, with a Cupid holding the rudder; his head is turned to look at a star bearing the letter N placed on the upper field; around above, TVTELA PRAESENS; in exergue, EPVLVM SOLLEMNE / IMPERATORIS IN CVRIA / VRBANA . FRIM . A . XIII. ; at sides of exergue line, names of the artists, PRUDMON DEL. JEUFFROY FEC. Edge Description Stamped: (Cornucopia) BRONZE. Laskey XLIII [Book] Laskey, J.C. Medals Struck at the National Medal Mint by Order of Napoleon Bonaparte, pp. 82-83. Extremely Fine.(164gr, 68mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
Footnotes
On the 16th of January, 1804, the city of Paris gave a splendid entertainment at the Hôtel de Ville to the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine. At this entertainment, Napoleon, in his address to VI. Frochet, the Prefect of the City, assured him, "That he had always entertained, and will preserve, a particular affection for his good city of Paris." This medal was struck to perpetuate the event of this grand entertainment. " This example of the medal was struck at the Paris mint between 1880 and 1901 from the original dies.
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