This 20Fr Napoleon gold coin is the version called “Genie”. Adapted from Duprey’s immortal Genie, this type is characteristic of the beginnings of the 3rd Republic.
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Napoléon 20 Francs – Génie
The 20 Francs Genie is the most struck gold coin after Napoleon III and Marianne Coq.
After the fall of Emperor Napoleon III, the Republic needed new engravings. It was decided to reuse the emblematic design of Augustin Dupré’s Génie, already represented on the Écus as early as 1792, under the first Republic of France.
In a total break with Napoleon III, the 20 Francs Génie highlights the values of the Third Republic.
One finds the inscription “LIBERTÉ EGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ” on the reverse, as well as a crown of oak leaves, the facial value and the date of striking.
On the obverse of the coin, Augustin Dupré’s engraving depicts an angel applied to writing on a still virgin law table. On all versions, one also finds the French emblems, a rooster and the lictor’s beam, surmounted by a hand of justice.
Characteristics :
- Product : 20 Francs – Génie
- Origin : France
- Fine gold : 5,81g
- Weight : 6,45g
- Fineness : 900‰
- Diameter : 21mm
- Strike : From 1871
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In numismatics, the Napoleon is a French gold coin of twenty francs, created on March 28, 1803 by the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. It bore the effigy of the latter but also, over the course of the regimes, those of Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis-Philippe, Napoleon III or republican symbols. In 1815, at the time of the Restoration and the return of the monarchy, it was customary for this piece to regain its name of “louis”. It is likely that the name of Napoleon, and its abbreviation “nap”, actually became common usage during the Second French Empire, during the industrial, commercial and banking expansion of France.