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1814, France (Provisional Government). Large Medallic Silver 5 Francs Coin. RR!
One of only 3,000 pcs. struck for Francis I of Austria.

Mint Year: 1814
Mint Place: Paris
Engraver: Tiolier
Mintage: 3,000 pcs.
Condition: Cleaned, with scratches in reverse and on edge, otherwise VF+
Reference: Davenport -, Mazard 769 (R2!), Gadoury 275, Bruce X#M4. RR!
Denomination: 5 Francs (Medallic Issue, struck in the name of Emperor Francis I of Austria, for his visit at the Paris mint during 26th April 1814!)
Weight: 24.91 gm
Diameter: 37mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: French royal arms (three lis) on beveled central sphere. Latin legend around.
Legend: GALLIA REDDITA EUROPAE / APRILE 1814.

Reverse: Inscription in three lines ("Angel of Peace") above mint name (PARIS) and designer`s signature (Tiolier).
Legend: FRANÇOIS I. EMP D'AUTRICHE . ("Frencis I, emperor of Austria") / ANGE DE PAIX ("Angel of Peace")

Edge: * DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE ("God preserve France!" - the usual edge lettering of regular circulating pieces!)

The French provisional government of 1814 held office during the transitional period between the defeat of Napoleon followed by the surrender of Paris on 31 March 1814 and the appointment on 13 May 1814 of the Government of the first Bourbon restoration by King Louis XVIII of France. On 31 March 1814 Marshal Auguste de Marmont surrendered Paris to the Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who entered the city the same day. Prince Talleyrand placed his house at the Emperor's disposal. The Senate met on 1 April 1814 and, in accordance with the views expressed by Alexander I, decreed the formation of a provisional government headed by Talleyrand.

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the history of Europe. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic and Emperor of the First French Empire.

Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, he rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, Napoleon staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later he crowned himself Emperor of the French. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, he turned the armies of France against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories - epitomised in battles such as Austerlitz and Friedland. He maintained France's sphere of influence by the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.

The French invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was wrecked in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig, invaded France and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he returned and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life under British supervision on the island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821. The autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer though Sten Forshufvud and other scientists in the 1960s conjectured that he had been poisoned with arsenic.

Napoleon developed few military innovations, drew his tactics from different sources and scored major victories with a modernised French army. His campaigns are studied at military academies the world over and he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest commanders. While considered a tyrant by his opponents, he is remembered for the establishment of the Napoleonic code, which laid the administrative foundations for much of Western Europe.

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