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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 4766339, member: 96174&quot;](Hit the wrong button! )</p><p>... 10 centimes, which were the same size as the British penny and roughly the same value, so it was often used and accepted as such.</p><p>When the French emperor Napoleon III was forced into exile after losing the Franco-Prussian was of 1870 - and losing Alsace and Lorraine to the Prussians, Pears seized the opportunity to order 500,000 coins and counterstamped&nbsp; them and&nbsp; gave away one coin with each piece of soap.</p><p>This was so successful that the British government quickly passed a law banning</p><p>the circulation and use of foreign currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>The French too also counterstamped N.III&#039; s coins, often with name Sedan, the final disastrous battle that the French lost, or else converting the emperor&#039;s head into some insulting shape, or put a German pickelhauber helmet on&nbsp; his head. It is a very interesting niche market</p><p><br /></p><p>Pears by the way was bought by Unilever, and Pears Soap is still made by Unilever Hindustani[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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