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I've got this medal from 1822 but no coins...

It was $22 including shipping. Let's face it, Louis Philippe isn't well known.

1842 L'Armée au Duc d'Orleans Prince Royal, France. 27mm Link Louis Philippe I was known as the Duc d'Orleans during the Napoleonic Wars and was involved with the Royalist forces allied against France.

1840 Translation aux Invalides du corps de Napoléon, France. 33 x 38mm Link An unlisted variant. There were an amazing number of junk medals, such as this one, that were produced at the time Napoleon's body was returned from St. Helena to France.

1825 Not a coin though these coronation medals were often struck on coin planchets.

1805 3 Pfenning, Osnabruck 24mm Link Being a one year type coin doesn't mean that there weren't die varieties. Take a look at this other 1805 3 Pfenning:

1793 1 Pfenning, Rostock 19mm Link If you compare this to the one below, particularly the reverse, you can see that they were struck from different dies.

1798 1 Pfenning, Rostock. 19mm Link About as sharply struck as these things go it's also off-center.

1805 1 Heller, Saxony. 17.5mm Link Notice the clearly visible 8/7 overdate on the reverse.

If you've got a picture let's see it! We're waiting on 1825 anyway.

1826

ok, so Brit history isn't my forte! After George III and IV nothing is particularly interesting anyway, right?

Not a coin so it probably doesn't count. 1837 - Death of King William IV (Vickie's uncle dad )

Nice!

Hehe. actually my emphasis is 1789-1815. I really don't have much outside those dates so I'm gonna double up the 44s

I've got an 1844 but we need an 1845 to move, uh... backward

The 1809 is wonderful! I'm just too cheap to collect US stuff from the period. But I love looking at it...

My God it's catching!!

NapoleonicMedals.org It's my personal collection online. Most of what I've got is there although there's a few hundred period magazines, newspapers and books that I've never bothered to image since I seem to be one of the few people on the planet who's interested. Also currently on my server (though I'll offer space to more people once I get off my lazy b-tt and configure secure FTP) are: Fortiter's Napoleonic Medals A collection of my friend David Block who passed in 2002. David wrote in some detail about many of the medals and what led to their being issued. It was a huge collection and was sold at auction by UBS in Switzerland in 2005. Before he passed away (and I wasn't even aware he was sick) he sent me this medal which remains one of the treasures of my collection. Before the 2005 sale his sister wrote and asked if there were any book I would like from his collection. I requested his copy of the Medallic history of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Ann Mudie Scargill which she promptly sent me. I'm sure she wondered why this obscure volume, by no means the most valuable in monetary terms, was my choice. It was because he had explained to me in one of our literally thousands of emails that the purchase of that book in 1936 had started him collecting Napoleonic Medals. His family graciously gave me permission to keep the site online. The BlackWatch Collection Also on the server is the images of the BlackWatch collection, sold in 2006 I believe. It was put together in very short fashion by a gentleman who is an antique dealer. After a few years collecting he decided to free up the capital it represented and went into another field of collecting. Like the Block family he gave me permission to retain the site on the server.

That two cent is wonderful!

1863 - Emancipation Proclamation

First time I've seen someone stutter in a forum. Darn coin probably froze his fingers up...

hehe, it is a nice dollar isn't it Art?

1840 Translation aux Invalides du corps de Napoléon, France Bramsen 1991 / 1996 var. mule 33mm Link The second of this odd mule that I've collected. It's odd because while I've found two none of the standard references over the past two centuries mention it at all.