- Proof: $35+
- Uncirculated: $5
*Values are for coins in
perfect condition.
Virgil was born in Padua (northern Italy) and studied Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy between the cities of Cremona, Milan, Rome and Naples where he spent most of his time. A powerful Roman, Maecenas, supports him financially, so Virgil can devote himself to writing. He writes the Bucoliques ,
Japanese painter, Ogura Yuki (1895 – 2000) is known in particular for his bijin-ga, his portraits of women. Teacher Mizoguchi Yuki – she will become Ogura Yuki through marriage – was born on March 1, 1895 in Ōtsu in Shiga prefecture, on the island of Honshū in Japan, near Kyoto. She grew up in th
Daughter of the Emperor of Austria Francis II, she married Napoleon in 1810, divorced from Josephine. She gave him a son:the King of Rome Napoleon II. Regent in 1813, she joined her father during the invasion of the allies. She would later marry the Count of Neipperg and then the Count of Bombelles.
Son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Dauphin in 1789 after the death of his older brother. Locked up in the Temple during the Revolution, he was isolated from all contact in anonymity and distress. He is the pretender to the throne after the death of his father in 1793. In 1795, Louis XVII dies in