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Napoléon Bonaparte: Civil Code
Nicolas-Guy-Antoine Brenet (French, 1770–1846)
French
1801
Mint: France
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 43 mm (1 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry H. Fay
Accession Number13.843
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Bramsen, 291.
Trésor numismatique, 2.9.
Sevres, Manufacture nationale, Archives, no. 15.
DescriptionCircular medal of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), first consul of France.
Obverse: Full length figure of Napoléon in classical costume looking to proper right, wearing laureate crown; inscribed at edge "NAPOLEON EMPEREUR" and below "BRENET F. DENON D".
Reverse: Sculpture of standing Minerva holding a spear; inscribed at edge "EN L'AN XII. LE CODE CIVIL EST DECRETÉ [flower]" and at proper left of Minerva "BRENET F./DENON D.".
Obverse: Full length figure of Napoléon in classical costume looking to proper right, wearing laureate crown; inscribed at edge "NAPOLEON EMPEREUR" and below "BRENET F. DENON D".
Reverse: Sculpture of standing Minerva holding a spear; inscribed at edge "EN L'AN XII. LE CODE CIVIL EST DECRETÉ [flower]" and at proper left of Minerva "BRENET F./DENON D.".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "NAPOLEON EMPEREUR" and below "BRENET F. DENON D".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "EN L'AN XII. LE CODE CIVIL EST DECRETÉ [flower]" and at proper left of Minerva "BRENET F./DENON D.".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "EN L'AN XII. LE CODE CIVIL EST DECRETÉ [flower]" and at proper left of Minerva "BRENET F./DENON D.".
ProvenanceBy 1913, Henry H. Fay; 1913, gift of Henry H. Fay to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 1, 1913)