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FRANCE: Napoleon I, as Emperor, 1804-1814, AE medal, 1806, PCGS Specimen 65

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FRANCE: Napoleon I, as Emperor, 1804-1814, AE medal, 1806, PCGS Specimen 65
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FRANCE: Napoleon I, as Emperor, 1804-1814, AE medal, 1806, Bramsen-512, 40mm bronze medal by Andrieu and Brenet, Denon mintmaster, commemorating the Conquest of Istria; NAPOLEON EMP ET ROI, laureate head to right; ANDRIEU F on neck truncation // TEMPLE D'AUGUSTE A POLA, tetrastyle temple of Augustus in Pula; BRENET F. to lower left, DENON D. to lower right; L'ISTRIE CONQUISE AN MDCCCVI in two lines in exergue, a superb example! PCGS graded Specimen 65. In 1805, Napoleon re-occupied the former Venetian Istria. The Holy Roman Empire ended with the period of Napoleonic rule from 1805 to 1813, when Istria became part of the Italian Kingdom and, from 1809, of the Illyrian provinces of the Napoleonic Empire.