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2 Centimes - Jérôme Bonaparte
| Issuer | Westphalia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a recessed central circle, the denomination numeral '2' appears prominently above the legend 'CENT.', with the mint mark 'J' (Paris) positioned below and a small privy mark to its left; the date 1808 is displayed at the bottom of the central field. Surrounding the circle, a raised circular legend reads 'KOEN.V.WESTPH.FR.PR.' (abbreviation for König von Westphalen, Fürst und Protektor), separated by pellets, running along the entire circumference against a finely granulated border. |
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Westphalia was a Napoleonic invention — carved out of Prussian, Hanoverian, and Hessian territories in 1807 and handed to Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother, as a model constitutional monarchy intended to demonstrate French-style governance to the German states. The kingdom lasted only seven years before collapsing under the weight of war indemnities, Jérôme's extravagance, and the 1813 German campaign. Coinage in French decimal denominations was a deliberate administrative imposition, forcing a metricated system onto a region accustomed to a fractured patchwork of German monetary units.
The kingdom's copper issues of 1808 were among its first circulating coins.