FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. Æ Medal (43mm, 40.99 g, 12h). Marriage of Napoleone I and Maria Luigia di Parma. By Luigi Manfredini. Dated 1810 (in Roman numerals). NAPOLEO M. I. ET R. AUG. MARIA ALOUSIA I. ET R. AUG., conjoined busts of Napoleone I, wearing the Iron Crown of Lombardy, and Maria Luigia, wearing stephane, right / SAEVUM PROCUL MARTEM FELIX TEDA RELEGAT., Hymen, God of Weddings, standing left, uses his torch to repel Mars, the God of War, holding reverted spear; A. MDCCCX in exergue. Bramsen 961. Brown surfaces, die breaks. EF.
From the David J. Fleischmann Collection.