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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 3234492, member: 8959&quot;]A lordM says, there are lots of coins of Napoleon to chose from.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, the most interesting, (and quite a bit scarcer, generally) are the ones struck for members of his family: after he had conquered most of Europe, Napoleon appointed various members of his family to rule of his various conquered possessions.</p><p><br /></p><p>He gave his brother Jerome the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1808, a German province with its capital in Kassel.</p><p>There, Jerome ruled happily, squandering away the provinces riches in his lavish life style. He was known as the &#039;party king&#039;. Coinage was struck for him at the Paris mint, denominated not in Francs, but in Franken. Jerome got kicked out of Westphalia when his brother was defeated at Waterloo in 1815. He returned to Paris in exile and lived a long and merry life there until old age.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 5 Franken piece struck for Jerome for use in Westphalia, dated 1809.</p><p>These circulated extensively and are quite scarce today. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]845380[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]845381[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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