103367 | FRANCE. Napoléon III/Battle of Sedan Satirical bronze 10 Centimes.

103367  |  FRANCE. Napoléon III/Battle of Sedan Satirical bronze 10 Centimes. Made circa 1870 (30mm, 9.43 g, 6h).

 

1854-BB 10 Centimes, with engraving upon obverse and reverse: head of Napoléon altered to depict him wearing a Prussian pickelhaube and with a military collar reading SEDAN; head of eagle erased and replaced with that of an owl. Edge: Plain.

 

Schweyer style «pointe en goutte» [p. 275, fig. 1 & p. 276, fig. 6]; cf. KM 771.3 (for host coin). Engraving: About Uncirculated. Host: Choice Very Fine. Warm brown surfaces.

 

Napoléon III's disastrous defeat at Sedan effectively ended the Franco-Prussian War as well as France's status once again as an empire. On account of the humiliating nature of the loss, the former emperor was the object of much derision and satire, with an entire aspect of numismatics birthed in the form of satirical tokens made from then-circulating coins, such as the present example.

 

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