The Battle of Jena

328, Lot: 702. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. Æ Medal (40mm, 37.35 g, 12h). Commemorating the Battle of Jena. By B. Andrieu. Dated 1806. NEAPOLIO IMPERATOR REX, laureate head right / BORVSSI DIDICERE NVPER, Napoléon on horseback right, wielding fulmen, trampling two soldiers; eagle flying above, EXERCITV AD ENAM/DELETO XIV OCTOB/MDCCCVI in three lines in exergue. Bramsen 537. Good VF, light marks.

The Battle of Jena on 14 October 1806 was a decisive victory for Napoléon, with the Prussian army suffereing 10,000 casualties.