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1804, France (1st Empire), Napoleon I.  Silver "Coronation" Medal. Restrike!

Mint Place: Paris Reference: Bramsen 327. R! Medalist: Andrieu / Denon (mint director) Mint Year: 1804 (AN XIII) - Here a later restrike! Denomination: Coronation Medal - Struck for the coronation in Paris! Condition: Graffiti  marking (1806-7) on edge, minimal deposits, otherwise a nice AU-UNC medal, struck with matted dies! Weight: 17.98gm Diameter: 32mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Laureated bust of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor Napoleon I right. Legend: NAPOLEON EMPEREUR .  / DENON DIR. ANDRIEAU F:     Reverse: A Roman Senator and a soldier hold a platform upon which Napoleon stands facing with the sword of Charlemagne and scepter, behind the senator is an open book, which represents the laws, behind the soldier is a ploughshare. Legend: LE SENAT - ET LE PEUPLE Exergue: AN XIII / DENON DIR. ANDIREU F.

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political  leader who had a significant impact on the history of Europe. He was a  general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic and Emperor of the First French Empire.

Born  in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, he  rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful  campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against  France. In 1799, Napoleon staged a coup d'état and installed  himself as First Consul; five years later he crowned himself Emperor of  the French. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, he turned  the armies of France against every major European power and dominated  continental Europe through a series of military victories - epitomised  in battles such as Austerlitz and Friedland. He maintained France's  sphere of influence by the formation of extensive alliances and the  appointment of friends and family members to rule other European  countries as French client states.

The French invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was wrecked in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the  Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig, invaded France and  exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he returned  and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.  Napoleon spent the last six years of his life under British supervision  on the island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821. The autopsy  concluded he died of stomach cancer though Sten Forshufvud and other  scientists in the 1960s conjectured that he had been poisoned with  arsenic.

Napoleon  developed few military innovations, drew his tactics from different  sources and scored major victories with a modernised French army. His  campaigns are studied at military academies the world over and he is  widely regarded as one of history's greatest commanders. While  considered a tyrant by his opponents, he is remembered for the  establishment of the Napoleonic code, which laid the administrative  foundations for much of Western Europe.

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