Issued to mark the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz, fought on December 2, 1805 — Napoleon's tactical masterpiece, in which the Grande Armée destroyed a combined Russo-Austrian force roughly one-third larger than itself in under nine hours. The Monnaie de Paris has produced a string of Napoleonic commemoratives over recent decades, but Austerlitz carries particular institutional weight: the battle's immediate aftermath included the Treaty of Pressburg, which effectively dissolved the Holy Roman Empire within months.
Issued to mark the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz, fought on December 2, 1805 — Napoleon's tactical masterpiece, in which the Grande Armée destroyed a combined Russo-Austrian force roughly one-third larger than itself in under nine hours. The Monnaie de Paris has produced a string of Napoleonic commemoratives over recent decades, but Austerlitz carries particular institutional weight: the battle's immediate aftermath included the Treaty of Pressburg, which effectively dissolved the Holy Roman Empire within months.