Summary

Medal Route de Nice a Rome 'From Nice to Rome', Issued by Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I), France, 1807
Artists: Bertrand Andrieu and Ramond Gayrard
Minted by Paris Mint

Obverse Description

Laureate head facing right; around, NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI.; on neck truncation, ANDRIEU F.

Reverse Description

The goddess Fortuna seated on a rocky shore, half draped, her left arm rests on a wheel; her right hand hand is placed on top of the highest mountain; in exergue, ROUTE DE NICE A ROME / MDCCCVII; on exergue line in small lettering, GAYRARD F. DENON DIR.

Edge Description

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Significance

"The exergue denotes the place of his departure (Nice) on his going to Rome, for the purpose of taking possession of that city and the ecclesiastical states; or the whole of the reverse may probably allude to his route over dreary mountains and rapid rivers during this peregrination." Laskey, p.155

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