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10 Francs - Napoleon I
| Issuer | Cattaro, City of |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a vertically oriented sword is flanked by a crossed musket and cannon arranged diagonally behind it, all enclosed within a laurel wreath. A monogram, likely that of the commandant, appears at the base of the central design. The date '1813' is inscribed in the lower exergual area. The encircling peripheral legend reads the siege declaration, separated by dot stops, in the same crude but legible engraving characteristic of this emergency issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cattaro — modern Kotor, in Montenegro — issued this piece during the brief and chaotic interval between Napoleonic French administration and Austrian reassertion of control over the Dalmatian coast. The city had passed between Venice, France, Russia, and Montenegro within a single decade. This issue was a local emergency measure, almost certainly struck from melted silver plate or other available bullion, which accounts for the atypical weight diverging sharply from any standard French franc module.
KM#3 is among the rarest of all Napoleonic-era municipal emergency coinages. Fewer than a handful of examples are documented in major collections.