Five French franc coin with Hercules 1769
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Musée Carnavalet, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
Musée Carnavalet, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
Pièce de cinq francs à l'Hercule, an IV (1796), coin, 3.6 cm diameter, 1796, artist: Augustin Dupré; source: Musée Carnavalet, Paris, https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/piece-de-cinq-francs-a-l-hercule-an-iv-1796-0, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
After the downfall of the radical Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) in 1795, the Republic's new silver coinage was designed by Augustin Dupré (1748–1833). It depicted Hercules embracing the female personifications of liberty and equality.
Pièce de cinq francs à l'Hercule, an IV (1796), coin, 3.6 cm diameter, 1796, artist: Augustin Dupré; source: Musée Carnavalet, Paris, https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/piece-de-cinq-francs-a-l-hercule-an-iv-1796-0, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.