fwo_841310 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF WESTPHALIA - JÉRÔME NAPOLÉON 1/6 Thaler 1812 Brunswick
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : 1/6 Thaler
Date: 1812
Mint name / Town : Brunswick
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,75 g.
Edge : cordonnée
Coments on the condition:
Patine légèrement tachée, jolis reliefs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HIERONYMUS - NAPOLEON..
Obverse description : Armes couronnées dans un collier.
Obverse translation : (Jérôme Napoléon).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 80 STICK EINE MARK FEIN / VI / EINEN / THALER / 1812 / B..
Reverse description : en quatre lignes avec des fleurons décoratifs.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF WESTPHALIA - JÉRÔME NAPOLÉON
(8/12/1807-26/12/1813)
Jérôme, Napoleon's younger brother, was born on November 15, 1784. The kingdom of Westphalia was tailor-made for him with the remains of Hanover, Brunswick and Hesse-Cassel. On August 22, 1807, Jérôme married Catherine of Württemberg then was named King of Westphalia on December 8, 1807. In 1813, after Leipzig, Jérôme had to abandon his States, which were dismembered. After the Battle of Waterloo, he lived in exile until 1848. Under the Second Empire, Marshal of France, he was President of the Senate and Governor of the Invalides before dying in 1860.
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