Brass, 26.7mm diameter.  CAROLUS X. REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS Crowned bust right.  R. Coronation scene, REMIS 29 MAI  MDCCCXXV in ex.  Reeded edge.  Mitchiner 3911d.  Slight stains, otherwise about EF.  NB  Graded according to British standards.

Ex David Rogers colln.

Reims was the site of 25 coronations of the kings of France, from Louis VIII in 1223 to Charles X in 1825, including the crowning of Charles VII in 1429 in the presence of Joan of Arc.

Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 1757 – 1836) was King of France from 1824 - 1830. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Charles (as heir-presumptive) became the leader of the ultra-royalists, a radical monarchist faction within the French court that affirmed absolute monarchy by divine right and opposed the constitutional monarchy concessions towards liberals and the guarantees of civil liberties granted by the Charter of 1814. Charles succeeded his brother Louis XVIII in 1824.

He was extremely unpopular in France. Civil unrest led to the July Revolution of 1830, which resulted in his abdication and the election of Louis Philippe I as King. He went into exile and died in 1836 in Gorizia, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was the last of the French rulers from the senior branch of the House of Bourbon.