1853 AD., France, Second Empire, Napoleon III and Eugenie, by Armand-Auguste Caqué, Paris mint, copper Medal.

France, Second Empire, Napoleon III (1808-73), and Eugenie (1826-80), his wife - Napoléon III et Eugénie, par Armand-Auguste Caqué (1793-1881), Paris mint, no date (probably struck 1853 AD.),
Medal (28 mm / 10,94 g), copper, axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), plain edge punched: cornucopia CUIVRE,
Obv.: NAPOLÉON III - EMPEREUR / CAQUÈ. F. / E. DE NIUWERKERKE DIREXIT , buste à gauche tête nue de Napoléon III, signature: CAQUE F., sous la signature: E. DE NIEUWERKERKE DIREXIT.
Rev.: EUGÉNIE - IMPÉRATRICE / CAQUÈ. F. / E. DE NIUWERKERKE DIREXIT , buste à gauche tête nue d'Eugénie ; en-dessous signature CAQUÉ. F., sous la signature: E. DE NIEUWERKERKE DIREXIT.
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Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I. Elected President by popular vote in 1848, he initiated a coup d'état in 1851, before ascending the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation. He ruled as Emperor of the French until 4 September 1870. He holds the distinction of being both the first titular president and the last monarch of France. The Second French Empire was overthrown three days after Napoleon's disastrous surrender at the Battle of Sedan, part of the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, which resulted in the proclamation of the French Third Republic and his exile in England, where he died in 1873.
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was the last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.

This medal was probably struck on the imperial wedding in 1853 - vraisemblablement frappée à l'occasion du mariage impérial en 1853.

Armand Auguste Caqué, né à Saintes (Charente-Maritime) en 1793, mort à Paris en 1881, est un sculpteur, graveur et médailleur français.
Graveur officiel de l'empereur Napoléon III[réf. nécessaire]. Ses médailles sont signées CAQUÉ F et quelquefois sa signature est suivie de la mention "Graveur de S. M. l'Empereur".
Après avoir produit un nombre considérable de médailles sous les Bourbons, il est mandaté par Marie-Thérèse de France (1778-1851) pour exécuter la fameuse galerie numismatique des rois de France, ensemble de soixante-quatorze médailles qu'il expose au Salon des artistes français de 1836 à 1839.

CAQUÉ, Armand Auguste (1793-1881) - a celebrated engraver from the Restoration through the Second Empire who became a royal favorite of the dauphin's wife in 1822, building his prominence amongst the engraving circles. Along with designing and engraving hundreds of jetons (especially for notaries), Caqué created medals and money for the restored Bourbon monarchy, Louis Philippe, the Second Republic, the Second Empire (Official Engraver to the Emperor), and the Third Republic. Also was the author of the acclaimed "Galerie numismatique des rois de France" (Numismatic Gallery of the Kings of France). Caque was born at Saintes in 1793. He attended the Royal School at Rochefort and the Ecole d'Application at Metz. He studied under the medallist, Raymond Gayrard and from 1817 to 1818 he was an assistant engraver at the Mint in the Hague. He held the post of Engraver to the Imperial Cabinet from 1853 to 1868. His best known work is his series of the kings of France comprising 74 pieces from Pharamund to Charles X. He died in 1881.