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Médaille satirique - Napolé, 2 Décembre cuivre

Médaille satirique - Napolé, 2 Décembre (cuivre) - obverseMédaille satirique - Napolé, 2 Décembre (cuivre) - reverse

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Features

Location France
Issuing entity Massonnet Éditeur
Type Advertising medallions › Satirical medals
Year 1870
Composition Copper
Weight 11.42 g
Diameter 33 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
441451
References Collignon 1870-1871# 32
Jean-Pierre Collignon; 1995. La médaille française et l'histoire de la guerre de 1870-1871: Musées de Charleville-Mézières = The French Medal and the History of the War of 1870-1871. Self-published, Charleville-Mézières, France.

Commemorative issue

Sedan defeatAutomatically translated

Obverse

Napoleon III wearing a German spiked helmet.
Circular legend in 2 lines separated by 2 skulls.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NAPOLEON III LE MISERABLE
2 DECEMBRE

Reverse

Napoleonic eagle with owl's head on a thunderbolt.
Legend in 2 circular lines separated by intersecting bones.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VAMPIRE DE LA FRANCE
SEDAN 2 SEPbre 1870
MASSONET ED.

Unabridged legend: Sedan 2 septembre 1870

Edge

Plain

Médaille satirique - Napolé, 2 Décembre (cuivre) -  obverse

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Comments

Same module as 10 centimes Napoléon III.
Following Napoleon III's defeat at Sedan, numerous satirical coins and medals were issued to ridicule the French emperor. Judged responsible for taking 80,000 prisoners, Napoleon III is frequently depicted wearing a spiked helmet and associated with bones, while the imperial eagle has become an owl.

HISTORY

SATIRE - THE 1870 WAR AND THE BATTLE OF SEDAN
During the war of 1870, the army of Châlons commanded by Mac-Mahon counted Napoleon III's presence from August 15 onwards, and tried to rescue Bazaine, who was trapped in Metz with the Army of the Rhine. On August 21, the Châlons army set off to join Mac-Mahon, but he was surrounded. Defeated on several occasions, notably at Beaumont, the army was rejected and encircled at Sedan by the Prussian generalissimo Moltke, despite the efforts of Major Lambert who, wounded, fought with his marsouins to the last cartridge. On September 2, 1870, crushed by German artillery fire, Napoleon III and 83,000 French soldiers surrendered to the Prussian king. On September 3, Napoleon III and Wilhelm I met, while Paris learned of the Emperor's defeat and captivity. Demonstrations erupted with cries of "déchéance! déchéance!". On September 4, Napoleon III was deposed and a government of national defense was set up.

SOURCE CGB.fr

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1870 

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