The last coins of the republic and the age of Napoleon (1798-1814)

In 1798, the year of the beginning of the Ligurian Democratic Republic, after the entry of the French troops in Genoa, the coin, although of unchanged weight and value, changed its typology by introducing new images of Liguria, the Phrygian cap etc.
(see display case 16: Coinage in Genoa from the French revolution to the fall of Napoleon: the Ligurian Republic and the Genoese Republic).
Napoleon's iconography appears from 6 June 1805, the date of annexation to the French Empire, then after the brief period of the Genoese Republic in 1814, annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia signalled, together with the definitive loss of political autonomy, also the end of Genoese coinage.

 

Strada Nuova Museums

96 lire 1804

96 lire 1804

Strada Nuova Museums

96 lire 1804

96 lire 1804