Italy. Medal ITALIE Gênes

ITALY Genoa, Ligurian Republic (1797-1805). Medal, entrance of Napoleon I to Genoa, by H. Vassallo 1805, Genoa Avv. IMP. NAPOLEONE. PFA REX. ITA. Laureate bust of Napoleon I on the right, with the crown cloak and the great necklace; signed below H. VASSALLO. F. Rv. FELICI. FAUSTOQ. AVVENTU. Janus head on a column adorned with the arms of the Ligurian Republic. On the left, caduceus, trumpet, sextant, governail, anchor and ballots, of which • one inscribed M. 2 and another with HV signature. On the right, two flags, a Globe and the •ingots in bars. On the reverse: II. KAL. LUG. MDCCCV. e SPQ LIGUR Br.428 - Lug. 1404 (Br) - Ess. 1080-36,58 g - 49 mm - 12 h By Hieronymus (Gerolamo) Vassallo, born in Genoa in 1773 and a scholar of the Academy of Fine Arts of this city, then student of Anton Guillemard at the Monnaie of Milan. In 1797, he enters the Monnaie of Genoa and becomes Chief Engraver in 1800. He works there until 1808 when he is sent to Milan to assist Luigi Manfredini. He is the author of the coins of Genoa before 1808 as well as of numerous medals in Genoa and Milan for France and then for Archduke Franz of Austria before his death in 1819. In 1797, the Republic of Genoa was forced to change its constitution to replace the government of the Doges with two councils within a Ligurian Republic. Sister republic to France, the Ligurian Republic established a doge in 1800 for five years, then in 1802 a doge named for life. On June 4, 1805, however, the Ligurian Republic was attached to the Empire and transformed into three departments, the Appennines to the east (Chiavari), the Montenotte to the west (Savona), and Genoa in the center. In July, the department of Geneva newly created the imperial visit of the Emperor, recently crowned • King of Italy since May 26, 1805, in the Cathedral of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. A new prefect, Bureaux-Pusy, former prefect of the Allier and of the Rhône, was named on July 4, 1805 (15 Messidor An XIII, the day after the date of our medal!). The old Hotel des Monnaies is preserved and becomes one of the sixteen establishments authorized to put into circulation gold and silver coins bearing the effigy of the new sovereign. It retains the workshop mark CC (in memory of Christopher Columbus) but will not enter monetary activity until April 1811 with the mark CL. Our medal relates to this administrative transformation and to the passage of the Emperor and the King of Italy into the city and department of Geneva, it is not the work of one of its most talented engravers, probably with the help of local tooling of the Monnaie.

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