FRANCE, Second Empire. Napoléon III. 1852-1870. Altered CU 10 Centimes (30mm, 9.63 g, 6h). Napoléon's Humiliation at Sedan. Made circa 1870. 10 Centimes, date altered to 1870, portrait altered to depict Napoléon in a Prussian pickelhaube, with collar reading SEDAN. Collignon, Guerre p. 56 note. Brown surfaces. VF.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.