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OK this one will please you because it has a super story.
It's a 2 Sol 1793, minted by the french army during the siege of Mayence, in Germany. They melted down the bronze of the churches' bells to cast those (a revolutionary's tradition).
Back then the revolutionaires recently chopped off Louis XVI's head, and basically all monarchies in Europe declared war to France, in order to help the nobility to set back up a king on the throne.
It was called the Coalition (basically the whole of Europe). It was expected the french army would collapse and be destroyed almost immediately, as they were already dealing with the bloodiest civil war ever + loyalist insurrections from within their ranks.
But to the general surprise, France BTFO'd everybody. Austria, Spain, UK, Prussia, etc.. one after another, then all at once. Back then our army was something else, frogs never backed down.
Since we won every battle, our generals fell a bit too cocky and started to invade our neighbors -starting with Germany- with what was left or our bled out ranks. With for goal to bring the republic into other monarchies.
Ofc it didn't take long before the exhaustion and no supply line stalled the advances. But instead of backing down, the frog army decided to capture german cities and make year's long sieges.
This coin was from the one in Mayence. 4.000 total were minted. The condition is truly astonishing.
