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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 240589, member: 6370&quot;]Just finished taking shots of a coin I have had for a bit but hadnt gotten around to getting up...I have been wanting an example of Napoleon III coins as the portraits on his coins are pretty spectacular...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/napoleoniii.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/napoleoniiip.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>now after examining the coin I realize it was signed BARRE and I looked through my coins as I knew I had another coin with that name on it, one I thought was also an outstanding portrait...here it is...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/ven.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Venezuelan un Bolivar depicting Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Ponte Palacios y Blanc commonly referred to as Simon Bolivar (El Libertador). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It is <span style="color: black">Coin and Medal Engraver Jacques</span> Jean Barre (1793-1855) depicted below on a high relief medal done by his sons and in a portrait....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.christophereimer.co.uk/images/m/8622.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.museedelaposte.fr/Collections/images/4676.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Jean-Jacques Barre (3 August 1793 in Paris-10 June 1855 in Paris) was the general engraver at the Monnaie de Paris between 1842 and 1855. In this position, he engraved and designed French medals, bank notes and postage stamps.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>From the late 1840&#039;s until 1855, he created the first two French postage stamp designs: the Ceres series and Napoleon III series. scarcely a year elapsed without some of his work appearing at the annual Fine Art Exhibitions at Paris.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now I know early Bolivar coins were minted in France as well as Belgium...I have seen other examples of his work including a great Barre pattern coin from Peru, once in the collection of King Farouk of Egypt.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://perso.club-internet.fr/stephane.dejaeger/store/AMEDAL873.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He is the one who, I think, developed the woman we see on french coins...demeter...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Under him came the features of Déméter, goddess Greek of the harvests, more known under the Roman name of Cérès. This representation of the Republic&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He also developed the image of the statue of liberty:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;The Second Republic had briefly used the Seal of State of the First Republic, which featured a Phrygian cap (or Liberty Cap), before having a new design created by the artist Jacques-Jean Barre. </p><p><img src="http://www.languedoc-france.info/spacer.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />The seal shows on the obverse a female figure representing Liberté (Liberty). She is personnified as Juno (Hera) seated, robed and wearing a crown of seven arches. This is the same crown that is so familiar from the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a gift from the French to the American people.&quot; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In essence...a great man in numismatic history...although his sons were not as prolific as him, they were also engravers...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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