Live auction - fme_864213 - SATIRICAL COINS - 1870 WAR AND BATTLE OF SEDAN Médaille satirique
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| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | 43 € |
| Maximum bid : | 55 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 18:39:35 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Médaille satirique
Date: (1870)
Date: 1868
Metal : various
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NOS FUSILS CHASSEPOT ONT FAIT MERVEILLE * / * FÉTICHE HIDEUX, FLÉAU DES PEUPLES, (LÉGENDE CIRCULAIRE).
Obverse description : Napoléon III de face en diablotin avec des bottes, au-devant de canons, à ses pieds des crânes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ / CHAUVINISME FÉTICHISME CÉSARISME, (LÉGENDE CIRCULAIRE); 1789 / O FRANCE, QUI ENFANTAS / JADIS LA LIBERTÉ, TU/ L’IMMOLES LÂCHEMENT/ AUJOURD’HUI SUR L’AUTEL/ DU DESPOTISME / 1868.
Reverse description : en cinq lignes entre 1789 rayonnant et 1868 sur un nuage.
Commentary
Le revers rappelle les avancées nées de la Révolution de 1789 et la date 1868 qui marque la libéralisation du régime de la presse suite au rétablissement de la censure du 2 décembre 1851. Le fusil Chassepot équipe l’armée française depuis 1866 et un million d’exemplaires en est fabriqué avant 1870.
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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