1/4 Franc - Napoléon I

Napoleon's decimal coinage system, introduced under the Germinal law of 1803, was one of the more durable administrative achievements of the Consulate — the franc divisional structure it established survived, with interruptions, well into the twentieth century. The quarter-franc sits at the bottom of that silver hierarchy, and dies for this denomination were distributed across multiple provincial mints simultaneously, making date-mint combinations a genuine collecting variable rather than a trivial one.

The 1806–1807 window corresponds to Napoleon's imperial consolidation following Austerlitz. The Paris house struck these under the A mint mark.