Napoleon's Marengo Gold Sword
- Maker
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Year
- c.1800
- Rank
- 39 of 100
Napoleon's Marengo Gold Sword
Napoleon's Marengo Gold Sword by Napoleon Bonaparte (c.1800) is ranked 39 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $6,500,000 in June 2007. A then-record weapon at auction, carried by Napoleon at a defining victory.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
A then-record weapon at auction, carried by Napoleon at a defining victory.
Gold-hilted sword carried by Napoleon at the Battle of Marengo
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $6,500,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- June 2007
Osenat, Fontainebleau. ~$6.5M (a French National Treasure).
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08