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1/2 Crown - Elizabeth II Napoleon the Legislator

Issuer East India Company
Year 2019
Type Non-circulating coin
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Reverse script Latin
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Edge Milled
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The East India Company — the trading conglomerate dissolved in 1874 following the Crown's assumption of direct rule over India — was revived as a luxury goods brand in 2010 and has since issued commemorative coinage under a self-granted numismatic authority that has no historical continuity with the original charter body. This piece belongs to that modern commercial program, not to any sovereign or colonial monetary issue.

Napoleon's legal reforms, specifically the Code Napoléon of 1804, remain the foundation of civil law across France, Louisiana, Quebec, and much of the former French colonial world.

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