Live auction - fme_972931 - SATIRICAL COINS - 1870 WAR AND BATTLE OF SEDAN Médaille satirique, En tête-bêche
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Live starting : Type : Médaille satirique, En tête-bêche
Date: 1871
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,29 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Restes de rouge de frappe. Traces d’un ancien nettoyage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NAPOLEON III LE LACHE - GUILLAUME LE CRUEL.
Obverse description : Dans un grènetis, têtes opposées, à la façon des cartes à jouer, de Napoléon III et Guillaume Ier, cerclé d’une chaîne à maillon. Napoléon coiffé d’un casque à pointe et fumant la cigarette, Guillaume portant des lauriers avec sa tête surmontée d’une pointe de casque.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LES VAMPIRES DE LA MORT - (GOUTTES DE SANG) 1870-1871 (GOUTTES DE SANG).
Reverse description : Dans un grènetis, un hibou couronné aux ailes déployées, perché sur des os en sautoir, cerclé d’une chaîne à maillon.
Commentary
Épaisseur : 2,5 mm.
Historical background
SATIRICAL COINS - 1870 WAR AND BATTLE OF SEDAN
During the war of 1870, the army of Châlons commanded by Mac-Mahon counted from August 15 the presence of Napoleon III and tried to come to the aid of Bazaine locked up in Metz with the army of the Rhine. On August 21, the army of Châlons leaves to join Mac-Mahon but this one is surrounded. Beaten several times, notably at Beaumont, the army was rejected and then surrounded at Sedan by the Prussian Generalissimo Moltke, despite the efforts of Commander Lambert who, wounded, fought with his porpoises until the last cartridge. On September 2, 1870, crushed by German artillery fire, Napoleon III and 83,000 soldiers of the French army surrendered to the King of Prussia. On September 3, Napoleon III and William I meet while Paris learns of the Emperor's defeat and captivity. Demonstrations burst out with cries of "forfeiture! forfeiture!". On September 4, Napoleon III is ousted while a government of national defense is set up.
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