FRANCE, Premier République. Consulat. Napoléon Bonaparte. Premier Consul, 1799-1804. Æ Medal (49.5mm, 73.19 g, 12h). Commemorating the Peace of Amiens. By Dumarest. Dually dated 6 Germinal L’An 10 and 17 March 1802
in Roman numerals. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL., laureate head left; DUMAREST F · below / PAIX D AMIENS., Napoléon standing left, in the guise of Mars, holding Victory on glove in left hand and presenting olive branch to England, reclining right on lion; DUMAREST F. to left; in exergue, LE VI GERMINAL AN X./ XVII. MARS/ M DCCCII ·. Bramsen 195; Julius 1053. EF.
The Peace of Amiens, signed on 25 March 1802, ended the War of the Second Coalition and initiated the only period of peace between Britain and France from the outbreak of hostilities in 1793 to the ultimate defeat of Napoléon in 1815. The peace was not to last. As a result of continued antagonism by Napoléon and by British refusal to implement the terms of the treaty, the conflict was reigned in May 1803.
