fwo_415798 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF WESTPHALIA - JÉRÔME NAPOLÉON 5 Franken 1813 Cassel
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Price : 900.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 900.00 €
Type : 5 Franken
Date: 1813
Mint name / Town : Cassel
Quantity minted : 2045
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 13,23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,60 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire avec une très légère usure sur les zones de plus hauts reliefs
Obverse
Obverse legend : HIERONYMUS - NAPOLEON.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à gauche ; signé Tiolier cursif au-dessous.
Obverse translation : (Jérôme Napoléon).
Reverse
Reverse legend : KOEN. V. WESTPH. FR. PR. / (MM) 1813. C.
Reverse description : 5/ FRANK. .
Reverse translation : (Roi de Westphalie prince français).
Commentary
Frappe monnaie. Sur les monnaies westphaliennes, Tiolier, également graveur général des monnaies françaises, a choisi pour différent une tête d’aigle.
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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