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Mexican Gold Tokens
Archduke Maximilian of Austria and his wife Princess Carlota of Belgium, appointed by Napoleon III, took the throne of Mexico as Emperor and Empress in 1864. The people of Mexico, rejecting the foreign rule, forced the French troops to pull out. Emperor Maximilian chose to stay, and on June 10th, 1867 he was executed. During his reign, coins were struck with his bust on the obverse, and the Mexico Coat of Arms on the reverse. This obverse is what was copied for the Maximilian tokens.
Mexican Gold Tokens
Archduke Maximilian of Austria and his wife Princess Carlota of Belgium, appointed by Napoleon III, took the throne of Mexico as Emperor and Empress in 1864. The people of Mexico, rejecting the foreign rule, forced the French troops to pull out. Emperor Maximilian chose to stay, and on June 10th, 1867 he was executed. During his reign, coins were struck with his bust on the obverse, and the Mexico Coat of Arms on the reverse. This obverse is what was copied for the Maximilian tokens.