Italian States - Kingdom of Napoleon 1810 (M) Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy 10 Centesimi 1810 M Milan - Napoleon I billon - crowned N in wreath - Italian States - C# 4 VF

Italian States, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, 10 centesimi, 1810, Milan mint, mint mark M.

Obverse: the letter N under a crown with seven points, surrounded by a laurel wreath. The dies were cut by Luigi Manfredini.

Reverse: the value 10 CENT with the small letters mi above it, below that the date 1810 and the mint mark M. The legend reads NAPOLEONE IMPERATORE E RE, which means Napoleon, emperor and king.

References: C 4, MIR MI 496/3, Numista N 23978.

Napoleon was king of Italy from 1805 to 1814 and Milan was the mint of that kingdom. The small denominations in billon were made there from 1808 to 1813. Billon is a silver alloy of low fineness, here 200 parts of silver in a thousand. For the year 1810 Numista, following the MIR catalogue, records a mintage of 760.000 pieces. The crown above the N is described as the iron crown of Lombardy, with which Napoleon crowned himself king of Italy in Milan in 1805. The kingdom ended in 1814 and Lombardy passed to Austria, but the money stayed in circulation. After the war Austria could not bring out a currency of its own straight away, so the Napoleonic Italian lira remained legal tender for another eight years. The lira austriaca appeared only in 1822.

A small witness of the Napoleonic years in northern Italy.

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