France, City of Antwerp (Wolschot workshop) 10 Centimes 1814 - Napoleon I, siege coinage
23.59g. VF/VF.
Mintmark W.
KM 5.4; Korchnak 53.
The siege of Antwerp took place from 14 January 1814 to 4 May 1814, during the War of the Sixth Coalition. Led by Governor Lazare Carnot, Antwerp, then a French city, resisted an Allied siege until Napoleon's abdication. Due to a lack of small currency in the city, Carnot decided to have 10 and 5 centime siege coins struck in bronze, using the navy’s metals.
Issue historically associated with present-day Belgium and France.
