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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4969942, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you.&nbsp; It&#039;s true that I had never even noticed the disclorations much in &quot;real life,&quot; and saw them as incredibly apparent only after I took the photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Republican calendar was used, as far as I know, on all French coins and medals (as it was used generally for all purposes) until a year after Napoleon&#039;s coronation as Emperor -- namely, up through L&#039;An 14 (1805/06, as each year began in September). I once learned the names of all the Republican months, to make genealogical research easier for my ancestors who lived in Alsace at the time, but have long forgotten them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, at the time this medal was issued, in &quot;rainy&quot; February of L&#039;An 9 (1801), Napoleon was still only First Consul -- another borrowing from Rome! -- and the Republican calendar was still in use.&nbsp; I have to wonder if M. Andrieu, in designing the reverse (possibly using the coin of Octavian I posted as a model) was already thinking of Napoleon&#039;s future in Augustan terms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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