FRANCE, Second Empire. Napoléon III. 1852-1870. Altered CU 10 Centimes (30mm, 8.92 g, 6h). Napoléon’s Humiliation at Sedan. Made circa 1870. Near Fine.

Electronic Auction 559
Lot: 833.

World Medals, Copper

Estimate: $ 75

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FRANCE, Second Empire. Napoléon III. 1852-1870. Altered CU 10 Centimes (30mm, 8.92 g, 6h). Napoléon’s Humiliation at Sedan. Made circa 1870. 1854 D 10 Centimes, altered to depict Napoléon in an amalgam of a Prussian pickelhaube and a knit peasant’s cap, with long beard and pipe and cavalry spur at neck (the spur engraved around a hole). Collignon, Guerre p. 56 note. Brown surfaces, holed. Near Fine.

Ex J. Eric Engstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 503, 3 November 2021), lot 650.


Closing Date and Time: 3 April 2024 at 14:37:20 ET.

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